Agustina Bazterrica

Agustina Bazterrica is an Argentine novelist and short-story writer whose dark, provocative fiction has won international acclaim. Tender Is the Flesh, her dystopian novel about a society that turns human beings into a legal meat commodity, became a worldwide sensation, alongside her story collection Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird.

Bazterrica's work mixes horror, satire and the grotesque to probe urgent questions of ethics, consumption and dehumanisation. Praised for its unsettling restraint and spare prose, she is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Latin American fiction.