Alia Trabucco Zerán (born 26 August 1983) is a Chilean writer.
Her debut novel La Resta (The Remainder) was critically acclaimed and won the 2014 Chilean Council for the Arts prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work.
In 2015, it was chosen by El País as one of the ten best debut novels that year.
[3] and winner of the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Born in Santiago, Chile, her father is Sergio Trabucco, a filmmaker, her mother Faride Zerán, is the Former President of the National Television Council of Chile and is of Palestinian and Syrian descent.