In response to BBC Culture’s article “ Can a book make you vegan?” Bazterrica said, “With Tender is the Flesh I never intended to write a vegan manifesto. Her first novel, Killing the Girl, was published in 2013. Other notable accomplishments include the First Prize in the 2004 National Short Story Competition of the Popular Library of Olivos, the First Prize in the XXXVIII Latin American Short Story Contest in 2009, and the Clarín Novel Award 2017. She has won multiple awards, starting in 1998 with third place in the Literary Contest “Lujan Centro Provincial de las Letras” in Argentina. What happens when cannibalism is not taboo, but actually the norm? BEHIND THE PENĪgustina Bazterrica was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. Such a world is created in Agustina Bazterrica’s novel Tender is the Flesh. The situations that create a need for cannibalism, however, can be very strange. For those of us in the horror community, ideas about cannibalism are not strangers.
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