Samanta Schweblin, writer: ‘Paying attention is the greatest superpower. Not everyone is still capable of it’

From ‘Mouthful of Birds’ to ‘Good and Evil and Other Stories,’ the Argentine writer has built one of the most distinctive and unsettling bodies of work in Spanish-language literature. In an interview in Berlin, where she has lived since 2012, she looks back on her career and reflects on a troubled present in which the anomalous threatens to become the norm

By Álex Vicente