- Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn Carrasco (1929-1988) was a
Chile anpoet ,playwright , andnovelist . Son of Enrique Lihn Doll and of María Carrasco Délano. He married Ivette Mingram (1932-2008) and had only one daughter: Andrea María Lihn Mingram, actress.Born in 1929 at
Santiago, Chile , Lihn aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt duringuniversity , he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. Lihn proceeded to develop into a well knownpoet ,playwright , andnovelist . He taught literature at theUniversity of Chile . Lihn views both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his contempt for the contemporarydictatorship , as Chile was governed by a militaryjunta . Works layered with social, political, and religious commentary are common throughout Lihn's canon. His final book, "Diario de Muerte " was written in the six weeks preceding his death from cancer on July 10, 1988--the evening before he died, he corrected the proofs. ["The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry". J. D. McLatchy ed. Vintage Books: New York, 1996. Pg. 546]Notable works
Poetry
*The Dark Room
*Cemetery in Punta Arenas
*Six Poems of Loneliness
*Torture Chamber
*Of All Despondencies
*A Favourite Little Shrine
*Goodnight, Achilles Notes
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