Jorge Edwards

Jorge Edwards

Jorge Edwards Valdés (born 1931) is a Chilean novelist, winner of the 1999 Cervantes Prize.

Life and career

Jorge Edwards is a Chilean novelist and journalist. He was born on June 29, 1931. He went to Law School at Universidad de Chile.

During the presidency of Salvador Allende, Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in Havana, Cuba. But only three months later, the government of Fidel Castro declared him "persona non grata". From this episode he wrote, perhaps, his most famous novel, "Persona non grata" (1971).

Awards and honors

*1979 He entered to the Academia Chilena de la Lengua
*1994 Chilean National Literature Prize (Premio Nacional de Literatura)
*1999 Cervantes Prize
*2000 Orden al mérito de Gabriela Mistral
*2008 Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa

Bibliography

hort Stories

*"El patio" (1962)
*"Gente de la ciudad" (1961)
*"Las máscaras" (1967)
*"Temas y variaciones" (1969)
*"Fantasmas de carne y hueso" (1993)

Novels

*"El peso de la noche" (1965)
*"Persona non grata" (1973)
*"Los convidados de piedra" (1978)
*"El museo de cera" (1981)
*"La mujer imaginaria" (1985)
*"El anfitrión" (1987)
*"El origen del mundo" (1996)
*"El sueño de la historia" (2000)
*"El inútil de la familia" (2004), about Joaquín Edwards Bello.
*"La Casa de Dostoievsky" (2008)

Journalist work

Jorge Edwards writes in several newspapers in Chile, Latin america (La Nación, Buenos Aires) and Europe (Le Monde, Paris; and El País, Madrid). A big portion of his journalistic work has been recollected in two books:
*"El whisky de los poetas" (1997)
*"Diálogos en un tejado" (2003)

Teaching

Jorge Edwards is teaching a course at the University of Chicago during the autumn quarter of 2008. The course is entitled My personal history of the boom [http://timeschedules.uchicago.edu/view.cfm?dept=SPAN&term=75] .

Other books

He has also written essays and biographies:
*"Desde la cola del dragón" (1973)
*"Adiós, poeta" (about Pablo Neruda, 1990)
*"Machado de Assís" (about the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 2002)

External links

* [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/extras_autor/00004229/paginaAutor.jsp Jorge Edwards in the Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes]
* [http://www.escritores.cl/base.php?f1=semblanzas/texto/edwards.htm Biography of Jorge Edwards in Escritores.cl]
* [http://www.memoriachilena.cl/mchilena01//temas/index.asp?id_ut=jorgeedwards(1931-) Biography of Jorge Edwards]
* [http://www.letrasdechile.cl/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=509 Awards and work]
* [http://www.arqchile.cl/edwards.htm Interview about "El inútil de la familia"]


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