SILENCE

Christian Asevedo

Christian Asevedo was born in San Fernando, Chile, in 1974. In April 1988, he emigrated with his family to Norway.

He has worked since 2001 at the TORO factory, part of the Orkla group, where he is also an active trade union representative and a member of his sections negotiating committee. He is married to Jessica Ramírez, also Chilean, and in 2005 they became a family together with their son Diego, born in Puerto Aysén in 2002 and adopted through a process that deeply marked their lives.

Reading has been an essential part of his personal journey, thanks to the influence of his father. Silence is his first novel. He wrote this book driven by a vital need: to tell an intimate story that blends passages from his own life with the collective memory of Chile over the past five decades. Influenced by authors such as Santiago Posteguillo and Ildefonso Falcones, his greatest passion is history books, and although he has yet to define a literary style of his own, his narrative voice is marked by emotional truth, memory, and the desire to understand what we leave unspoken.