What is the greatest dream of every writer in the world? No, it’s not the Nobel. The Nobel is just a pathway to this holy grail, this pinnacle of achievement. Without this one thing, you aren’t even a real writer, no matter how famous you are or how many copies you sell or how many awards you get in your native Mexico, Russia, Spain, Morocco, or Japan.
My currently most favorite writer in the world, Rafael Chirbes, was about to reach this shining pinnacle of writerly success when he died of lung cancer. He still got it, of course, but posthumously.
More about Chirbes’s last book in the next post.
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