Samanta Schweblins Unsettling Normality
In her work, Argentine author Samanta Schweblin explores the feeling of eeriness that accompanied her childhood. Samanta was born in Buenos Aires in 1978, just after the start of a violent dictatorship. But, while violence surrounded her growing up, there was also art: her grandfather was a famous artist who began to train her as a writer when she was six years old. Together they took\xa0trips, stole books, rode the train without tickets and went to plays and museums\u2014all in the name of artistic training. It worked. Samanta\u2019s work has been translated into 25 languages and long-listed for the International Booker Prize.
\n\nIn this episode, Samanta shares the origins of her\xa0fascination with the blurry lines between our perceptions of what\u2019s normal and what\u2019s strange.