Joseph Zárate (b. 1986, Lima) is a Peruvian journalist and editor. He is the author of Guerras del interior (2018). He won the 2020 National Journalism Award and was nominated for the True Story Award 2020–2021 for his chronicles on funeral work during the Covid-19 pandemic in his country, collected in his nonfiction book Algo nuestro sobre la tierra (2021) from which this translation is excerpted.
The Cemetery Mártires del 19 de Julio / Wikimedia
In these chronicles of funeral workers in Peru during the Covid-19 pandemic, families gather in a cemetery the size of fifty soccer fields to try…
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