Gaston Salvatore (29 September 1941 – 11 December 2015) was a Chilean writer living in Germany and writing in the German language.
Salvatore was born in Valparaíso. Among other things, he is known for his collaborations with
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...
, including
Compases para preguntas ensimismadas
''Compases para preguntas ensimismadas'' is a musical composition for viola, strings, wind sextet and percussion by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.
It was written during 1969–70. The title is taken from lines in Spanish by the Ch ...
and
Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
''Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer'' (''The Tedious Way to the Place of Natascha Ungeheuer'') is a composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. It represents one of the most examples of his early socialism-inspir ...
.
In 1967, he and
Rudi Dutschke
Alfred Willi Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke (; 7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979) was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within the West German Socialist Stu ...
translated
Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
's ''"Message to the Tricontinental"'' into German, for which they wrote an introduction.
He and
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarde ...
jointly founded the journal ' in 1980.
In 1991 he won the
Kleist Prize
The Kleist Prize is an annual German literature prize. The prize was first awarded in 1912, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Repu ...
.
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* . On his friendship with
Rudi Dutschke
Alfred Willi Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke (; 7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979) was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within the West German Socialist Stu ...
.
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1941 births
2015 deaths
Chilean male writers
People from Valparaíso
Chilean emigrants to Germany
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