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Alan Talevi was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. He won First Prize in the Itaú Contest and the Short Story Contest of the Circle of Students of Writing Arts at the National University of the Arts (Argentina). He published the novel Red Thread and Rowan (Erizo, 2024), the short story collections But No Word Survives (Malisia, 2019), Anomaly (Ed. Municipal de Córdoba, 2020; Favila, 2025) - for which he won Second Prize in the Luis José de Tejada Municipal Contest -, and My Husband Fell in Love with Anne Hathaway (Cuero, 2023). In poetry, he published Hysteresis (HD Ediciones, 2022) and In a Tide Well (Cuero, 2022). He has participated in various anthologies, including Bolaño's 266 Microdoses (2024), From Another Planet (2021), and The Edges of Biology (2018). He was also included in the anthology Audiocuento (UnaBrecha). He received a Creation grant from the National Arts Fund and was selected to participate in two editions of the FAUNA festival. He is one of the founders of the publishing house Salta el Pez.

About Anomaly, Roque Larraquy wrote: “A man who doesn't know himself. A woman who can't get used to the gaze and eyes of her daughter. A new face shaped by an accident. A couple forced to live with other couples who seem happy. A glitch in space and time. A social catastrophe.

If the anomaly is the minority case, the exceptional deviation, the breakdown of an absurd pact of normality, what happens if it grows in time and number, if it becomes part of the landscape, if it is breathable, if it is currency?

Talevi tells and doesn't let go, and opens this question in six precisely contoured stories, with characters and worlds that shudder when they are told.”

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