Rafael Gumucio Araya (born January 15, 1970 in

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) is a Chilean writer and comedian.

Biography

He is son of the historian Rafael Luis Gumucio Rivas, grandson of the left-wing politician Rafael Agustín Gumucio, and the cousin of filmmaker and also politician

Marco Enríquez-Ominami Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio (born 12 June 1973) is a Chilean- French, filmmaker, politician, and perennial candidate. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and ran for P ...

. He attended high school at the Colegio Regina Pacis in

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;, graduated as a Spanish language teacher first and then as a Master in Literature at the

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. After the

1973 Chilean coup d'état The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006. In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...

he lived as an exile in

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. He published his first novel in 1999, ''Memorias prematuras'' (''Premature memoirs''), called "a book where the writer narrates his life; the exile with his family in France, his return to Chile, his failure with women, his first dabblings in journalism and university life" and "for many, the best he has ever written". He resided nearly four years in

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and in 2004 he published his first novel, ''los platos rotos'' (''The broken dishes''), on which Gumucio has stated "it is very fictional non-fiction. It is an historical essay that has something of short story, theatre, novel, narrative". Afterwards he got married and moved to

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. There, in the hometown of his wife, with whom he has two daughters, he wrote ''La deuda'' (''The debt''). He has written for the newspapers

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, El Metropolitano,

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and

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and for the magazines

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, Rock & Pop, ''Fibra'', of which he was founder and general editor and The Clinic, of which he was also one of its founders. He has also been conductor, script-writer and producer of television shows like ''Gato por liebre'' (Rock & Pop Televisión, 1995-1998) and of the absurdist humour show Plan Z (TV show), which was censored more than once. He is director of the Instituto de Estudios Humorísticos of the

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and comedian-host of the ''Desde Zero'' show on

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with

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and

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Prizes

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2004 (Alemania) * Runner-up of the

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2000 with ''Memorias Prematuras''Gumucio en la página del Premio Altazor
* Runner-up of the

2003 for essays with ''Monstruos cardinales''

Works

*''Invierno en la torre'', tale, 1995 *''Memorias prematuras'', novel, 1999 *''Monstruos cardinales'', column compilation, 2002 *''Comedia nupcial'', novel, 2002 *''Los platos rotos. Historia personal de Chile'', 2004 *''Páginas coloniales'', travel book, 2006 *''La deuda'', novel, 2009 *''Contra la belleza'', essay, 2010 *''La situación'', literary chronicle, 2011

References

External links

Artículos de Rafael Gumucio en ''Letras Libres''Artículos de Rafael Gumucio en The Clinic
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