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Biographical note
Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Nine Moons, a memoir on pregnancy, and Sexographies, a collection of gonzo journalism about contemporary sex culture. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and translated into six languages. Wiener won a Peruvian National Award of Journalism for a report on violence against women. Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan. Her translations include Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim award, and Boulder by Eva Baltasar, which was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent
- Valeria Luiselli, author of 'Lost Children Archive',
[Undiscovered] captivated me... Powerful and searing, this novel snaps, bucks, heals, and snaps again
- Samanta Schweblin, author of 'Fever Dream',
Powerful, genre-transcending... A quiet, lucid triumph
Irish Times
Perhaps the most irreverent and daring voice of the new literary generation of Latin American women
New York Times
A blistering yet surprisingly tender engagement with some of the most highly debated issues of our moment: cultural appropriation, xenophobia and internalized racism, migration, decolonization, family legacies and sexual mores... [A] lyrical, empathetic, entertaining and sometimes hair-raising reading experience
TLS
Undiscovered's beautiful blend of fiction and personal feeling on everything from sex, to death, to Peru's traumatic history to France's heritage-colonial industry could not be more contemporary, vital and important, or expressed in more dynamic and immersive prose
- Preti Taneja, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning 'We That Are Young',
The best book that I've read about ancestry and love in the contemporary postcolonial condition
- Paul B. Preciado, author of 'An Apartment on Uranus',
Gabriela Wiener's ease and grace allow her in Undiscovered to talk about family, desire, racism, colonialism and being a migrant both tenderly and sharply, vulnerable but strong like her beautiful writing
- Mariana Enríquez, author of 'Our Share of Night',
Sharp and insightful about self-discovery, postcolonialism, sexual desires, and polyamory in the 21st century... Wiener's book ultimately triumphs due to her forceful writing, lucid ideas, and an irrepressible quest for a decolonised present
- Leo Boix, Morning Star
A major voice in Peruvian literature... Undiscovered has an appealingly raw, confessional tone, but its prose is highly polished
NPR
[An] open-ended meditation, which wrestles questions of heritage and colonialism
- Francesca Peacock, Daily Mail
A rollicking decolonial fact-fiction remix of her family's histories, the life of her great-great-great grandfather, the explorer Charles Wiener, and how all this time plays out in her own body, and her current life, and polyamorous household in Madrid
Electric Literature
Following the trail of Gabriela Wiener, walking behind her, dreaming of catching up with her, is one of the few luxuries we have left
- Alejandro Zambra, author of 'Chilean Poet',
Incisive... Wiener shifts seamlessly from the intimate to the historical, often with humor
Publishers Weekly
A collective autobiography in a decolonial key; a settling of scores that is unafraid of self-criticism; a language that jolts and startles
- Cristina Rivera Garza, author of 'Liliana's Invincible Summer',
Gabriela Wiener is pure rebellion, humour and tenderness at the same time
- Sara Mesa, author of 'Four by Four',