5 Contemporary Chilean Authors You Should Know
Isabel Allende (1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of "magical realism", is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
Alejandro Zambra is the author of My Documents, Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have received several international prizes. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, and McSweeney’s, among others. In 2010, he was named one ofGranta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and he is a 2015–16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He teaches literature at Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.
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Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author born in Argentina, whose books have been published in over fifty languages and his plays performed in more than one hundred countries. Among his works are the plays Death and the Maiden and Purgatorio, the novels Widows and Konfidenz, and memoirs such as Heading South, among others. His novels, poetry, essays, plays, stories and screenplays have won numerous awards. He contributes to major papers worldwide, including frequent contributions to The New York Times and the New York Review of Books Daily. A prominent human rights activist and an Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.
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Lina Meruane is a novelist, essayist, and cultural journalist. She has also published a collection of short stories, Las Infantas as well as three novels, Póstuma , Cercada and Fruta Podrida. She was awarded Chile´s National Council of the Culture and the Arts in and the Anna Seghers Prize in Germany. Meruane received the prestigious Mexican Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2012 with the publication of her most recent novel, Sangre en el ojo (Seeing Red). Meruane has received writing grants from the Arts Development Fund of Chile, the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.
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Luis Sepulveda (1949) is writer and journalist. He was politically active during the presidency of Salvador Allende in the department of cultural affairs. The president, Salvador Allende, was a first cousin of Isabel Allende's father (The first author on our list). During the Chilean coup in 1973, the dictator, Augusto Pinochet, took power with the assistance of the CIA. Luis Sepulveda was imprisoned by the regime and managed to escape after several years. He was rearrested and given a life sentence. It was later reduced, due to German pressure, and he was exiled. Since then, he has written many children's books, short stories and novels such as Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly, Mundo del Fin del Mundo, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories and many others.
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