Mexico City.- The Veracruz writer, the only compatriot writer present on the list, appears with Hurricane Season, translated into English by Sophie Hughes.
“His sentences are sloping hills; his paragraphs, whole mountains,” exalts the American newspaper.
“It’s no wonder that Melchor was dubbed a sort of south-of-the-border Faulkner for her baroque and often brutally harrowing tale of poverty, paranoia, and murder (and witches, or at least the idea of them) in a fictional Mexican town…
“When a young woman, pregnant by her pedophile stepfather, arrives there unwittingly, her arrival is the spark that ignites a powder keg.”
Hurricane Season, which was also nominated for the International Booker, is ranked 82nd on the list.
The list is headed by three women: the Italian Elena Ferrante, with My Brilliant Friend, in first place; the American Isabel Wilkerson, with The Warmth of Other Suns, in second place, and in third place Hilary Mantel, from Britain, with Wolf Hall.
In addition to Melchor, there are four other Latin American voices, including Chilean Roberto Bolaño, who occupies two positions: sixth, with 2666, and 38, with The Savage Detectives.
Also in the running are Dominican Junot Díaz, in 11th place, for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Argentine Hernán Díaz, in 50th place, for his novel Fortuna.
And one more Chilean: Benjamín Labatut, in 1983, with A Terrible Greenness.
In addition, authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, Ian McEwan, Annie Ernaux, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Svetlana Alexievich appear.
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