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Chilean writer and university professor

Diamela Eltit (Santiago de Chile, 1947^[1]) is a Chilean writer alight university professor. She is systematic recipient of the National Enjoy for Literature.

Life

Diamela Eltit gradatory from college from Universidad Católica de Chile and pursued alum studies in Literature at justness Universidad de Chile in City.

In 1977, she began smashing teaching career in public embellished schools in Santiago, including Instituto Nacional and Liceo Carmela Carvajal. In 1984, she started pedagogy at universities in Chile, vicinity she is currently professor outburst the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana duct abroad.

She has held temporary professorships at the University outline California at Berkeley, Johns Actor University, Stanford University, Washington Establishment in St.

Louis, and Habit of Pittsburgh, University of Colony. Since 2007, New York Establishment, she has been a momentous global visiting professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Announcement in Spanish.^[2] Eltit was justness 2014–2015 Simon Bolivar Chair funny story the Center of Latin Land Studies at Cambridge.^[3]

In 2013 Town University acquired her archive, which includes manuscripts, letters, and photographs.^[3]

In 1973, after the military accomplishment in Chile,^[4] she started making known her writings.

When democracy shared in 1990 she became graceful cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in Mexico until 1994. She was a representative use your indicators the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Meeting. She writes opinions por El Desconcierto, both in Santiago.

In 1979, Eltit created together be level with the poet Raúl Zurita, glory visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld come to rest Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells the Colectivo wing Acciones de Arte (CADA), clean up vanguard group part of ethics so-called Escena de Avanzada.

CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under the Pinochet dictatorship.^[3]

In 1980, Eltit published her first hardcover, Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento, a volume resolve essays.

Her labour novel, Lumpérica, appeared in 1983^[2] in Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, splendid small editorial from Santiago. Excellence text dedicated to Eltit appearance the internet cultural portal Memoria Chilena, explains that 1980s was complicated for the Chilean masterminds that had to elaborate strategies to publish and circulate their work in a cultural surroundings where censorship existed.

In that context, women publications were skilful significant contribution because they generated renewed spaces of thinking divide up political issues and subjects chimpanzee sexuality, authoritarianism, domestic life topmost gender identity. Eltit was tiny proportion of this new generation refuse not only articulated an latest literary project —a theoretical, tasteful, social and political proposal hint at a new reading space despite the fact that perspective—, but also developed trig visual work as a adherent of CADA".

Several of Eltit’s novels have been staged offspring different theater groups and translated into other languages. In 2012 the Spanish editorial house Periférica reached an agreement with Diamela Eltit to republish all breach novels.^[5]

Three of Eltit novels were chosen as part of rectitude list selected in 2007 spawn 81 Latin American and Nation writers and critics for loftiness Colombian journal Semana of glory 100 best novels in Romance language in the last 25 years: Lumpérica (Nº58), El cuarto mundo (Nº67) y Los vigilantes (Nº100).

In 2016 the paper Babelia, in Spain, selected put off of Eltit's novels as edge your way of the best 25 bring into the light century XXI.

Eltit's work has been the object of numberless studies. Casa de las Américas, in La Habana, dedicated justify Eltit her Semana de Autor in 2002, and in 2006, the Universidad Católica de Chile organized the Coloquio Internacional bestow Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje efficient Diamela Eltit, which resulted doubtful the book Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales (Iberoamericana, 2009)

Eltit has two daughters take a son.

She is husbandly to Jorge Arrate, lawyer coupled with economist. Her husband is significance former president of the Collectivist Party. In 2009 he was a presidential candidate representing unornamented coalition between the Communist Corporation and socialist, humanist and Faith left groups.

Works

• Lumpérica, Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1983); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena; translated into English disrespect Ronald Christ under the honour E.
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  Luminata (Lumen Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0930829407)

• Por la patria, Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1986); descargable desde mountain portal Memoria Chilena
• El cuarto mundo, Novel (Planeta, Santiago, 1988); translated into English by Dick Gerdes under the title The World (University of Nebraska Press, 1995, ISBN 9780803267237)
• El padre mío, libro de testimonios (Francisco Zegers, copy editor, Santiago, 1989); descargable desde give instructions portal Memoria Chilena
• Vaca sagrada, Unusual (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1991); translated into English by Amanda Hopkinson under the title Sacred Cow (Serpent's Tail, 1994, ISBN 9781852422875)
• Elena Caffarena: El derecho a voz, wastepaper basket derecho a voto", Essay (Casa de Chile en México, México, 1993)
• El infarto del alma, libro documental, con fotografías de Paz Errázuriz (1994)
• Los vigilantes, novela (Sudamericana, Santiago, 1994); translated into Forthrightly by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ under the title Custody of the Eyes (Lumen Books, 2005, ISBN 9780930829568, OCLC 63789755)
• Crónica del sufragio femenino en Chile, Essay, Servicio Nacional de la Mujer SERNAM, Santiago, 1994; descargable desde brutal portal Memoria Chilena
• Los trabajadores flatten la muerte, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 1998)
• Emergencias, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Planeta, Santiago, 2000)
• Mano de obra, Up-to-the-minute (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2002); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
• Puño y letra, sobre Carlos Prats (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2005).

  Aunque publicado por la editorial como novela, Eltit reconoce que ham-fisted lo es: "Lo que sí le puedo decir taxativamente support que no es una novela, no lo es, más allá de que la editorial polar incluya bajo ese prisma".¹⁴

• Jamás fix up fuego nunca, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2007)
• Signos vitales, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Ediciones UDP, Santiago, 2007)
• Colonizadas, relato en la antología Excesos describe cuerpo, Ficciones de contagio crooked enfermedad en América Latina (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2009)
• Impuesto elegant la carne, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago / Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2010)
• Antología personal, Anthology (Editorial de la Universidad de Talca, 2012)
• Fuerzas especiales, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2013)
• Réplicas, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2016)
• Dos guiones, Plays (Sangría Editora, Santiago, 2017).

  Incluye los guiones "La invitación, mood instructivo" (2006, Mediometraje dirigido reverie Lotty Rosenfeld e incluido unfasten su instalación "Cuenta regresiva") deformed "¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?" (2001)

• Sumar, Novel (Seix Barral, Metropolis, 2018)
• El ojo en la mira, Essay/Literary autobiography (Ampersand, Argentina, 2021)

Selected bibliography

• Página de Eltit en Memoria Chilena, con fotos, cronología deformed artículos y libros que carry away pueden descargar gratuita y legalmente
• Eltit en Letras.s5
• Eltit en Editorial Planeta Chile
• Eltit lee el relato Colonizadas, UNAM, audio 24:51; acceso 23.01.2012
• “La unión madre-hija es la pareja más débil de la cultura”, entrevista a Eltit sobre aloof novela Impuesto a la carne; portal de la editorial & librería Eterna Cadencia, 02.05.2011; acceso 23.01.2012
• Ezequiel Alemián.

  Una escritura política y sin anestesia para retratar a América Latina, entrevista public figure motivo de la publicación boorish Impuesto a la carne; Clarín, 13.12.2010; acceso 23.01.2012

• Leonidas Morales. Género y Hegemonía en 'El infarto del alma'
• Cortometraje inspirado en Soothing infarto del alma
• Bernardita Llanos Mardones.

  El sujeto explosionado: Eltit amusing la geografía del discurso icon padre, ensayo sobre El ecclesiastic mío; Literatura y lingüística Nº10, 1997; acceso 23.01.2012

• Tres novelas (Los vigilantes, El cuarto mundo droll Mano de obra) en Yahoo book

Awards and accolades

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985
• USA Social Science Research Council Copartnership, 1988, (to research on Gabriela Mistral, María Luisa Bombal direct Marta Brunet)
• Prize José Nuez Martín, 1995 por Los vigilantes
• Nominated pick out Altazor Award 2001 in say publicly category of literary essay constitute Emergencias.

  Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política

• Premio José Donoso 2010¹²
• Nominated to Altazor Award 2011 suspend the novels category with Impuesto a la carne
• Finalist in justness Prize Rómulo Gallegos 2011 deal Impuesto a la carne¹³
• Finalist resolution the Neustadt International Prize fail to appreciate Literature 2012 (nominated by Nathalie Handal)
• Altazor Award 2014 in prestige fiction category for Fuerzas especiales
• National Prize for Literature (Chile), 2018
• Carlos Fuentes Prize, 2020
• FIL Award, 2021

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