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Fernando Aramburu

Biography

Fernando Aramburu

Fernando Aramburu is the internationally celebrated author of 13 novels and multiple short-story collections. His awards include the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Prize, the Euskadi Prize, the Dulce Chacón Prize, the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Prize, the Tusquets Novel Prize, the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the 2017 National Prize for Narrative, the Strega Europeo, and the Taobuk Award for Literary Excellence. His novel PATRIA became a European phenomenon. He lives in Germany. 

Fernando Aramburu

Books by Fernando Aramburu

The Child
written by Fernando Aramburu, translated by Will Vanderhyden - Fiction

Based on a real-life school explosion near Bilbao that killed 50 children in 1980, THE CHILD follows one family --- parents, grandparents, and the lost boy of the novel’s title --- through the long, painful arc of grief. Fernando Aramburu’s gift lies in his ability to portray ordinary people with extraordinary humanity: small gestures, fleeting thoughts, contradictory impulses, the quiet heroism of resilience. The grandfather who refuses to believe the boy is gone; the parents determined to “be strong;” the town that both remembers and forgets --- each is rendered with exacting truth and tenderness in careful, and caring, prose.