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Atenea Award
The Atena Award ( es, Premio Atenea, links=no) is an honor given by the journal ''Atenea'', published by the University of Concepción, Chile. The award was given for the first time in 1929, granted annually to the most outstanding book of the year in the literary or scientific field. The Atenea was discontinued from 1967 to 1994, to be delivered again in 1994 and 1997. Re-launched in 2006, it now alternately rewards literary works and scientific books. Recipients References {{Reflist, 30em External links Atenea Award at the University of Concepción 1929 establishments in Chile Awards established in 1929 Chilean literary awards Chilean science and technology awards University of Concepción ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atenea
''Atenea'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal containing research and critical reflections on Chilean and Latin American culture including arts, literature, history, sociology, and other sciences. It is published by the University of Concepción. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Hispanic American Periodicals Index, SciELO, and Redalyc The Redalyc project (''Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal'') is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México wit .... Further reading * * External links * Academic journals published by universities of Chile Latin American studies journals Publications established in 1924 University of Concepción Spanish-language journals 1924 establishments in Chile Biannual journals {{Area-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luz De Viana
Marta Villanueva Cárdenas, known by her pseudonyms Luz de Viana and Marta Villanueva, (b. 25 December 1900 – d. 1995) was a Chilean writer and painter. She specialized in novels and short stories. Biography Marta Villanueva Cárdenas was born in Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ..., Chile. Her first published work was ''No sirve la Luna blanca'' (1945), for which she won the Athena Award from the University of Concepción. She is assigned to the "School of Subjectivity" of feminine literature in Chile and of contemporary Chilean writers. As a painter, under the pseudonym Marta Villanueva, she is included in the Grupo Montparnasse. Her husband was Alfonso Bulnes Calvo (1885–1970), Chilean historian, essayist and diplomat. She died in Santiago. Along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection ''Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'' (1924). Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of Valparaíso, and in 1949 he escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina; he would not retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzalo Rojas
Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro (December 20, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was a Chilean poet."Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet, is dead" Obituary, ''The Telegraph'', 26 April 2011. His work is part of the continuing literary tradition of the twentieth century. In 2003 he was awarded the . Life and career He was the seventh son of a[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Baltra
Alberto Baltra Cortés (6 January 1912 – 20 September 1981) was a Chilean politician and economist, a member of the Radical Party. Biography The son of Luis Baltra Opazo and Luisa Cortés Monroy, Alberto Baltra studied at the Liceo de Traiguén and the National Institute. He entered the University of Chile, where he received the institution's award for the best graduate in 1935. He obtained his law degree in 1937, with a report entitled ''Ensayo de una teoría general de los actos inoponibles''. As a student, he worked first in the law school library (1930–1932) and later as secretary of the school's director (1932–1934). Baltra specialized in economics, and in 1935 he became the founder and first director of his alma mater's School of Commerce and Economics. He then taught university and wrote several books on economics. In 1937 he joined the Radical Party, and under the government of Juan Antonio Ríos, in 1942, he was appointed general director of the Ministry of Eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn Carrasco (3 September 1929 – 10 July 1988) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram (1932–2008). They had one daughter, the actress Andrea María Lihn Mingram. Linh was born in Santiago, Chile. He aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt at pursuing this ambition during university he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. He proceeded to develop into a poet, playwright, and novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ... and would teach literature at the University of Chile. Lihn viewed both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his anger for the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Aldunate Phillips
Arturo Aldunate Phillips (1902–1985) was a Chilean poet, civil engineer, mathematician, and researcher. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1976. Works * ''Era una sirena, poesía'', 1921. * ''El problema de las utilidades y la crisis económica actual, ensayo'', 1934. * ''El nuevo arte poético y Pablo Neruda, ensayo'', 1936. * ''Federico García Lorca a través de Margarita Xirgú, ensayo'', 1937. * ''Matemática y poesía, ensayo'', 1940. * ''Estados Unidos, gran aventura del hombre, ensayo'', 1943. * ''Pablo Neruda: selección, compilación'', 1943. * ''Un pueblo en busca de su destino, ensayo'', 1947. * ''Al encuentro del hombre, ensayo'', 1953. * ''Albert Einstein, el hombre y el filósofo, biografía'', 1956. * ''Quinta dimensión, ensayo'', 1958. * ''Los robots no tienen a Dios en el corazón, ensayo'', 1963. * ''Por las fronteras de la cibernética, ensayo'', 1964. * ''Una flecha en el aire y otros ensayos'', 1965. * ''A horcajadas en la luz, ensayo'', 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Niemeyer
Hermann Niemeyer Fernández (26 October 1918 – 7 June 1991) was a well-known Chilean scientist he did much to establish biochemistry as a research discipline in Chile. In 1983 he received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias de Chile, National Science Prize for his major advances in biochemistry in the fields of bioenergetics, metabolic regulation of enzymes, and studies of metabolism in liver cells. Life and career Education Hermann Niemeyer was born in Ovalle, Chile, where his father was the German consul. His secondary education was at the :es:Internado Nacional Barros Arana, Internado Nacional Barros Arana in Santiago, where he joined an exceptional group of young people, including :es:Jorge Millas, Jorge Millas [es] and Nicanor Parra (brother of Violeta Parra). Membership of this group, illustrated at a web page about Nicanor Parra that has a photograph that includes Niemeyer as a young man (easily recognizable to those who knew him as an old man), marked Niemeyer's chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roque Esteban Scarpa
Roque Esteban Scarpa Straboni (March 26, 1914 in Punta Arenas - January 11, 1995 in Santiago) was a Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1980. He was of Croatian and Italian descent. Scarpa served as professor of literature at the University of Chile and was a prominent member of the Chilean Academy of Language. In 1943 he founded the Teatro de Ensayo of the Catholic University of Chile. He was director of the National Library of Chile (1967–1971 and 1973–1977). He also served as a literary critic in the newspapers ''El Mercurio ''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in ...'' and '' La Aurora''. Works *''Dos poetas españoles: Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti'' (1935) *''Mortal mantenimiento'' (1942) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Alegría
Fernando Alegría (Santiago de Chile, 26 September 1918 – Walnut Creek, California, October 29, 2005) was a Chilean poet, writer, literary critic and scholar. Biography He grew up in the Independencia '' barrio'' of the city. Poets from this ''barrio'' include Pablo Neruda, Violeta Parra and Volodia Teitelboim. Alegría studied al Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera of Santiago and Universidad de Chile. He received a Master of Arts (M.A.) from Bowling Green State University in 1941 and a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1947. From 1964 to 1967, Alegría was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1967 to 1998 he was a professor at Stanford University and for many years he was Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Language Departments there. He sat on the Board of Trustees at the Western Institute for Social Research(WISR) for about twenty years beginning with its inception in 1975. Alegría served as cultural attaché from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efraín Barquero
Efraín Barquero (3 May 1931 – 29 June 2020) was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2008. Biography Barquero studied at the University of Chile in Santiago, with people such as Jorge Teillier, Pablo Guiñez and Rolando Cárdenas. Later he worked in Colombia during the government of Salvador Allende. Later he settled in France from 1975 in exile after the 1973 coup. He traveled and lived in various countries of Asia, Latin America and Europe in countries such as China, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba until 1990. Barquero's poetry is generally about simple things and the wonders of the universe, with social meaning and is often read by children. In France he wrote ''A deshora'' between 1979 and 1985, which was later published in Chile in 1992. During this period he also wrote ''Mujeres de oscuro'' and ''El viejo y el niño''. Barquero attempted to return to Chile but ongoing difficulties meant that he returned to France shortly after trying to settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Oyarzún (writer)
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
