Trujillo, Simón López
Entry updated 23 February 2026. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Chilean translator and author, whose work has, perhaps inevitably, been seen as showing the influence of Roberto Bolaño. His first novel, El vasto territorio (2021; trans Robin Myers as Pedro the Vast 2026), though variously reflecting the earlier Chilean writer, provides a moderately more conventional frame from which to explore language and, inexplicitly, the fate of the planet. Bolano's 2666 (2004) is a distant ancestor. In a Near Future world fire-blasted by some of the effects of Climate Change, a fungus-based infection (see The Last of Us; see also Richard Powers's The Overstory [2018]) transfigures a lone survivor into a prophet of a Gaia-evoking wholeness. The tale, which is of novella length, ends short of the End of the World. [JC]
Simón López Trujillo
born Chile.
works (selected)
- El vasto territorio (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caja Negra Editora, 2021) [binding unknown/]
- Pedro the Vast (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2026) [trans by Robin Myers of the above: hb/]
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