Adriana Valdés Budge (born October 3, 1943 in Santiago,

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) is a Chilean writer essayist.

Biography

Valdés studied at the

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. She taught literature at that University (1965–1975) and, after 25 years working for the United Nations, went back to postgraduate teaching on arts at the University of Chile for some years after 2002. She writes on visual arts and literature. Two collections of her essays were published in book form, in 1996 and 2006. With Pedro Lastra she co-edited the posthumous book of

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, "Diario de muerte", in 1989. She was named a Fellow of the Chilean Academy of Language in 1993. In 2010 she became the first woman to serve as deputy director of the Academy. She was reelected to this position in 2013. She received the 2010

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in literary essay category for her book ''Enrique Lihn: vistas parciales'', and in 2013 was short-listed for the same award for her book on "De ángeles y ninfas", on

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and

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewi ...

. Along with

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, she published ''Studies on Happiness'', Barcelona, 1999. She has edited a book on the painter

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(1996) and two books about the artist Alfredo Jaar: Jaar/SCL/2006 and Venezia,

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(2013). In 2018 she received the

Santiago Municipal Literature Award The Santiago Municipal Literature Award ( es, Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago) is one of the oldest and most important literary awards in Chile Created in 1934 by the municipality of Santiago, its first edition awarded the categories of ...

in the Essay category for ''Redefinir lo humano: las humanidades en el siglo XXI''.

Books

* Composición de lugar. Escritos sobre cultura. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1996. * Memorias visuales. Arte contemporáneo en Chile. Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2006. *

: vistas parciales. Santiago: Palinodia, 2008. * Señoras del buen morir (poetry). Santiago: Orjikh, 2011. * De ángeles y ninfas. Conjeturas sobre la imagen en Warburg y Benjamin. Santiago: Orjikh, 2012.

References

External links

Speech welcoming Pedro Lastra
(video, in Spanish)
with Adriana Valdés
(video interview in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Valdes, Adriana 1943 births Writers from Santiago Chilean people of Spanish descent Living people Chilean essayists Chilean women essayists 20th-century Chilean women writers 20th-century Chilean poets 21st-century Chilean women writers 21st-century Chilean poets Chilean women poets