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Hernan Diaz: ‘If ever I find myself on the page, I view it as an immense failure’

Hernan Diaz, 50, was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Brooklyn. A finalist in 2018 for the Pulitzer prize in fiction with his debut , which the called “an offbeat western”, he is the joint winner of this year’s award – together with Barbara Kingsolver – for his second novel, , . A slippery story of a Depression-era tycoon and his late wife as told four different ways, it made the longlist for last year’s Booker prize, whose judges called it “sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning [and] determined to rob us of every certainty”.Almost no novels in the American canon talk about money-making. to be understood. But on the flipside, money is very reliant on storytelling: look at how desperately those who amass any kind of fortune try to account for how it was accumulated so they can present it in a legitimate way to the public.

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