Oliver Welden (1946 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
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– 31 January 2021) was an award-winning
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
.
Career
In 1968, he received the Luis Tello National Poetry Award of the Society of Chilean Writers for ''Perro del Amor'', a collection of 23 of his poems. In the 1960s, Welden and his wife,
Alicia Galaz Vivar, also published a poetry journal in Chile called ''
Tebaida'' (Thebes).
Works in English
* ''Love Hound'', trans. by Dave Oliphant, 2006, Host Publications, Inc
References
External links
Entry at Host Publications
1946 births
2021 deaths
Chilean male poets
Writers from Santiago
20th-century Chilean poets
20th-century Chilean male writers
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