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Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's José Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is best known for his crónicas, a selection of which was published by Pushkin as A Last Supper of Queer Apostles, and one novel, My Tender Matador, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda.A jewel... Hilarious... Deeply romantic... Offers a study of resilience, showing how to not only survive the tyranny of stupid, vicious men, but to do so majestically - a timely gift
- Lauren J Joseph, Guardian
It's a crime that Lemebel is so little known in the English-speaking world. This is one of the great novels of the past half century
- Garth Greenwell, New York Times
An almost-perfect introduction to Lemebel and everything he stood for... Searing, angry power on every page
- Barry Pierce, Big Issue
A powerful novel-artful, astonishing, deeply moving
- Isabel Allende,
Lemebel doesn't have to write poetry to be the best poet of my generation... When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in the cesspit or in nothingness, Pedro Lemebel will be a star
- Roberto Bolaño,
Astute, grimy, raucous and tender. It's a love story, a political memoir, a defiant act of speculative fiction. Much like the author, it's sui generis
- Lauren John Joseph, Guardian
A dream of a novel. It makes a fool of dictatorship; it finds the power in queer lives, solidarity and friendship, and in tender, hopeless love
- Keith Ridgway, author of 'A Shock',
Pedro Lemebel's voice speaks so loudly and clearly to our present, relentlessly fighting the forces of fascism, misogyny and queerphobia. My Tender Matador is a little masterpiece - a book that demands its way into your heart
- Juliet Jacques, author of 'Variations',
A must-read masterpiece of political consciousness, resistance, and transgression. This is a major queer classic that merits broader recognition in the English-speaking world
Morning Star
'One of the great novels of the past half century' GARTH GREENWELL
A rediscovered queer classic: the subversive, blazingly beautiful oddball romance between an ageing trans woman and a young revolutionary by a Latin American icon
It is spring 1986 and Santiago's streets are aflame with protests against the dictator Augusto Pinochet. From her lavishly decorated hovel, the Queen of the Corner embroiders linen for the wealthy, dreams of romance and listens to boleros to drown out the rioting and gunshots. When handsome young macho Carlos waltzes into her life, the ageing queer swiftly agrees to help with his clandestine activities. As a strange connection blooms, their fates careen towards that of the dictator himself.
Written in lushly imaginative prose that blends the sordid and the profound, the romantic and the militant, My Tender Matador is a transgressive queer classic of desire and revolution.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
Translated by Katherine Silver.
Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's José Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is best known for his crónicas, a selection of which was published by Pushkin as A Last Supper of Queer Apostles, and one novel, My Tender Matador, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda.
Katherine Silver's most recent translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff, César Aira, Verónica Zondek, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. She is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC), and the author of Echo Under Story.