Carlos Labbé

Carlos Labbé is a Chilean novelist, journalist and editor, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010. His novels include Navidad y Matanza (2007) and Locuela (2009). He has also written short story collections and recorded three albums.

An apparition: extraditing Victor Jara’s suspected killer

The struggle to bring one of the protest singer’s suspected killers from the USA back to his native Chile will remind Chileans of the struggle to extradite and try Pinochet himself. And while Jara’s case helped to draw attention to ‘disappearances’ under the regime, hundreds of families still have

By Carlos Labbé

/ 8 Feb 2013