Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alejandro Zambra


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The result was   keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Alejandro Zambra

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Could not find reliable sources for this author.  Diego Grez  what's up? 23:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I think this article should stand, although it needs to be expanded and more sources added. Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean author who has a very high profile in his home country, but not much is known about him in the US. He has recently had a novella (entitled Bonsai) translated into English, as well as a translation which has just been released by Open Letter press (The Private Lives of Trees). Some sources for further information about him are as follows:

Open Letter Books: http://catalog.openletterbooks.org/authors/22-zambra Melville House: http://mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=48 Words without Borders: http://wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/alejandro-zambras-the-private-lives-of-trees/ The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/seed-projects-fiction-alejandro-zambra?comment_sort=ASC

-Larissa —Preceding unsigned comment added by LKyzer (talk • contribs) 19:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm Chilean, and I don't think this author has that "high profile" you claim he has. I couldn't find reliable sources either. Diego Grez (talk) 20:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:40, 24 August 2010 (UTC)


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 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment His book "Bonsai" won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006, an article about the book would easily meet the notability criteria for books(WP:NBOOK). Amazon cites a review from Las Últimas Noticias describing the novel as “one of the greatest literary events of recent years.”  --Jmundo (talk) 17:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 *  Keep After searching G.News I found several reliable sources available to establish notability 1, (ex Alejandro Zambra chosen among the best young writers in Latin America) --Jmundo (talk) 00:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 *  Keep: per Jmundo - Ret.Prof (talk) 17:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.