SEM Literary Agency
Alan Talevi
argentina
Alan Talevi was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. He won first prize in both the Itaú Competition and the short story contest organized by the Circle of Writing Arts Students at the National University of the Arts (Argentina). He is the author of the novel *Hilo rojo y serbal* (Erizo, 2024) and the short story collections *Pero ninguna palabra sobrevive* (Malisia, 2019), *Anomalía* (Ed. Municipal de Córdoba, 2020; Favila, 2025)—for which he received the second prize in the Luis José de Tejada Municipal Competition—and *Mi marido se enamoró de Anne Hathaway* (Cuero, 2023). In the field of poetry, he has published *Histéresis* (HD Ediciones, 2022) and *En un pozo de marea* (Cuero, 2022). His work has appeared in various anthologies, including *266 microdosis de Bolaño* (2024), *De otro planeta* (2021), and *Los bordes de la biología* (2018). He was also included in the anthology *Audiocuento* (UnaBrecha).
He was awarded a creative grant from the National Fund for the Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes) and was selected to participate in the FAUNA festival on two occasions. He is one of the founders of the publishing house Salta el Pez.
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Anomalía (Anomaly)
“I fell through a wormhole.”
There is a single anomaly in this book, recounted six times across six stories. Defining it might be an invitation to play, though it is perhaps more rewarding to watch it unfold within these fantastic tales—which draw inspiration from genres like horror and science fiction, among others—as they reveal a path, rich in twists and diversions, that allows us to recognize ourselves and begin to glimpse the anomalous: the struggle, amidst adversity, to be human.
Following a motorcycle accident, a young scientist is left disfigured, while his girlfriend becomes bedridden, trapped in what doctors describe as a "minimally conscious state." In the limbo that ensues, the protagonist rediscovers arcane knowledge passed down by his mother during his childhood—a discovery that triggers a slow descent into malevolence. Could it be that accidents do not actually exist? This fragmented novel, driven by a remarkable narrative pulse, is rooted in the Gothic and fantastic traditions. Talevi’s deceptively transparent prose uses invisible threads to stitch together seemingly disparate elements of the world—science, witchcraft, sex, and the tortuous relationships between parents and their children.
Hilo rojo y serbal (Red thread and rowan)
