Jaime Collyer

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Jaime Collyer (born 1955) is a

Collyer cites a diverse and wide-ranging set of influences from various countries and cultures. Amongst them are Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov as well as German post war writers such as Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass. Chief amongst his influences are authors of Latin-American extraction, including Julio Cortázar and Juan Carlos Onetti.^[10] Perhaps his most salient influence, an author to whom he has been compared, is the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges. Undoubtedly an influence, Collyer was even dubbed "The New Borges" after the release of the collection Gente al acecho (People on the Prowl).^[11] Borges is mentioned within the collection in the story 'Ultimos días de nuestro vecino', in which a character comes across the Aleph, a place where all points on the earth can be seen from one point, something which Borges had described in his own short story in the collection The Aleph.^[12]

Works

Novels

• Los años perdidos (1986)
• El infiltrado (1989)
• Cien pájaros volando (1995)
• El habitante del cielo (2002)
• La fidelidad presunta de las partes (2009)
• Gente en las sombras (2020)

Short story collections

• Gente al acecho (1998)
• La bestia en casa (1998)
• Cuentos privados (2002)
• La voz del amo (2005)

Children's books

• Hacia el nuevo mundo (1986)

External links

• (in Spanish) Interview with Jaime Collyer
• (in Spanish) EducarChile article on Jaime Collyer
• People on the Prowl review, Latin American Literary Review Press

References