Winner of the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Translated Book.
An openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship, Pedro Lemebel combined memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry in brilliantly innovative essays that brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world.
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