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José Donoso
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death. Donoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American Boom, Latin American literary boom. His best known works include the novels ''Coronación'' (''Coronation''), ''El lugar sin límites'' (''Hell Has No Limits'') and ''El obsceno pájaro de la noche'' (''The Obscene Bird of Night''). His works deal with a number of themes, including Human sexuality, sexuality, the duplicity of identity, psychology, and a sense of dark humor. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bachelor Of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years, depending on the country and institution. * Degree attainment typically takes four years in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, China, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States and Zambia. * Degree attainment typically takes three years in Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Caribbean, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the Canadian province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Marchant Lazcano
Jorge Marchant Lazcano (born March 9, 1950, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean writer, playwright, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.Jorge Marchant Lazcano goodreads.com He is the son of Jorge Marchant Montalva and María Ester Lazcano Cuevas. He had a religious, conservative and very formal education of which Jorge partially united, when he began to study journalism at the Universidad de Chile in 1969. Start in the literature His first literary contributions were published by Editorial Quimantú, a former publishing house of . Very soon he discovered a new form of literature that helped him to write ''La Beatriz Ovalle'', his first novel, published in |
Gonzalo Contreras
Gonzalo Contreras is a Chilean writer. In 1991 he won the first edition of ''El Mercurio''s Concurso de Novela Inédita (unpublished novel competition) with ''La ciudad anterior''. He went on to publish ''El nadador'' in 1994 and ''El gran mal'' in 1998. In 2004 he published Natural Law, and, 9 years later, its second part, Mecanica Celeste. During 20 years he has imparted a literary workshop, bombastically considered the most prestigious in Chile. Literary critic Catholic priest Ignacio Valente described Contreras' prose as very good, as opaque in the best sense, like that of Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typ .... References 20th-century Chilean novelists 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean male novelists Living people Year of birth missing (living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Collyer
Jaime Collyer (born 1955) is a Chilean writer, born in Santiago, Chile in 1955 who became part of a generation of writers known as the ''"Nueva narrativa chilena"'' or the New Chilean Narrative. His works have been translated into English, French and other languages, winning various literary prizes and acclaim. Life Born in 1955, Collyer claims he discovered the joy of writing fiction as a child in school at a young age. Later in university, studying psychology, he realised "the only thing I wanted to do was to write." Having finished his degree in 1980, Collyer moved to Madrid, Spain in 1981 to begin a writing career and to study International Relations and Political Science. In 1986, he co-wrote a children's book ''Hacia el nuevo mundo'', and his writing career began in earnest from there. He published ''El infiltrado'' in 1989, which was awarded a prize as the best Latin-American novel translated to French that year. Collyer has continued to publish works to much critical a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rivera (writer)
Roberto Rivera may refer to: * Roberto Rivera (soccer) (born 1980), Mexican soccer player * Roberto Rivera (baseball) Roberto Rivera Díaz (born January 1, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball player. He made his MLB debut with the Chicago Cubs in . He last played in the majors for the San Diego Padres The San Diego Padres are an American professional ... (born 1969), baseball player * Roberto Rivera Ruiz (born 1950), Puerto Rican politician * Roberto Maldonado Rivera, Puerto Rican nationalist {{hndis, Rivera, Roberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Franz
Carlos Franz Thorud (born March 3, 1959) is a writer from Chile, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Biography The son of the Chilean diplomat of German descent Carlos Franz Núñez and the stage actress of Norwegian descent Miriam Thorud Oliva, Carlos Franz was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his father was posted. At age 11, after having also lived in Argentina, he arrived to Chile. Franz studied law at the Universidad de Chile (1976-1981) and became a member of the Chilean Bar in 1983, a career that he abandoned four years later so as to dedicate himself to literature. Between 1981 and 1983 he attended the literary workshop of José Donoso. Franz has written the novels ''Santiago Cero'' (1988); ''El lugar donde estuvo el Paraíso'' (1996); ''El desierto'' (2005); ''Almuerzo de vampiros'' (2007); and ''Si te vieras con mis ojos'' (2015). Some of his works have been translated into other languages (English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Polish, Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Brodsky
Roberto Brodsky Baudet (born 1957, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean novelist and screenwriter. He has written four novels, several film and theater scripts, and over 250 articles published in national newspapers and magazines. Baudet was awarded the 2007 Jaén Prize for Best Novel and the 2009 Martin Nuez Award, both for his 2008 novel ''Bosque Quemado'' (Burnt Forest). He lives in New York City with his wife and family. He is Adjunct Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies in Georgetown University. Novels *2008 – ''Bosque quemado'' (Burnt Forest), Premio Jaén - España *2004 – ''El arte de callar'' (The Art of Silence) *2001 – ''Los últimos días de la historia'' (The Last Days of History) *1999 – ''El peor de los héroes'' (The Worst of Heroes) Short stories *"El crimen de escribir" (The Crime of Writing) *"Con Pasión" (With passion) Filmography - scripts *2010 – ''Mi vida con Carlos'' (My Life with Carlos) - documentary *2007 – ''El brindis'' (The Toast) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees. On an urban 1,880-acre campus on the banks of the Iowa River, the University of Iowa is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". In fiscal year 2021, research expenditures at Iowa totaled $818 million. The university is best known for its programs in health care, law, and the fine arts, with programs ranking among the top 25 nationally in those areas. The university was the original developer of the Master of Fine Arts degree and it operates the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which has produced 17 of the university's 46 Pulitzer Prize winners. Iowa is a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ercilla (magazine)
''Ercilla'' was a biweekly news magazine published in Santiago, Chile. The magazine was in circulation between 1936 and April 2015. Its title is a reference to Alonso de Ercilla who wrote the first epic poem in Spanish in Chile. History and profile ''Ercilla'' was established in 1936. The magazine was published on a biweekly basis and had its headquarters in Santiago. It featured articles on news and cultural events. The magazine was published by a state-controlled company, Zig-Zag, which was later renamed Quimantu, until the coup d'état in Chile in 1973. However, the magazine had an independent editorial stance and in fact, was critical of Salvador Allende just before the collapse of the Allende government. In addition it held a conservative stance until the coup. Sergio Mujica was the owner of ''Ercilla'' until March 1976 when it was seized and was sold to a company owned by the Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is an English publishing house, founded in 1887 and existing as an independent entity until the 1970s. The name was used as an imprint of Random House Children's Books from 1987 to 2008. In April 2008, it was revived as an adult non-fiction imprint within Random House's CCV division. As of 2019, The Bodley Head is an imprint of Vintage Publishing UK. History Originally Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Bodley Head was a partnership set up in 1887 by John Lane (1854–1925) and Elkin Mathews (1851–1921), to trade in antiquarian books in London. It took its name from a bust of Sir Thomas Bodley, the eponymist of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, above the shop door. Lane and Mathews began in 1894 to publish works of ‘stylish decadence’, including the notorious literary periodical ''The Yellow Book''. Also notable amongst Bodley Head's pre-Great War books were the two volume sets: ''Foundations of the Nineteenth Century'' (1910 and later editions, sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred A
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario * Alfred Island, Nunavut * Mount Alfred, British Columbia United States * Alfred, Maine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
