Juan Pablo Roncone
Juan Pablo Roncone was born in Arica, Chile, in 1982. In 2007, he won the Roberto Bolaño prize for an unpublished novel, and he won the Gabriela Mistral prize in 2010. In 2011, he won the Municipalidad de Santiago prize for his first short story collection, Hermano Ciervo (Editorial Los Libros Que Leo, 2011; Fiordo Editorial, 2012; Marbot Ediciones, 2013; Sudaquia Editores, 2013; and Laurel Editores, 2014 and 2016). In 2017, he was chosen by the Bogotá39 project as one of Latin America’s best fiction writers under forty.
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The highway is a straight line. Cristobal drives in silence. It’s January and we are travelling south. Cristóbal’s grandmother has a little house in San Ramón. The sun hasn’t set yet. My back hurts. C... -
My wife and I used to rent a house near the beach. We liked to get out of Santiago once in a while and watch the afternoon go by from the porch. My wife’s name is Antonieta and she writes for the cult...
