translated from Spanish: Chair in women and media with Diamela Eltit library Nicanor Parra Chair

women and media with D iamela Eltit in Auditorium of the library Nicanor Parra, Vergara 324. Underground Heroes.
Wednesday, April 3, 11:30 hours entry released writer Chilean, winner of the national prize of literature 2018, Diamela Eltit will establish a dialogue with the Álvaro Matus journalist about his outstanding literary work and his gaze on feminism in the Chile today.
This open and free activity will be held on Wednesday, April 3 at 11:30 in the Auditorium of the library Nicanor Parra (Vergara 324).
Diamela Eltit is a prominent Chilean writer. She was awarded the national prize of literature in 2018.
In the course of the last thirty years has lectured and participated in panels, seminars and forums in various Chilean, Latin American, North American and European universities. Abroad has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Stanford, Washington in St. Louis, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Berkeley and New York University, where since 2007 so far is Global distinguished professor in the program of Creative writing in Spanish. In the academic year 2014-2015 was nominated to the Cátedra Simón Bolívar in the center of Latin American studies at the University of Cambridge.
In 1979, when he was a student of literature at the University of Chile, he founded together with Raúl Zurita, Lotty Rosenfeld, Juan Castillo and Fernando Balcells collective actions of art (each) that was part of the so-called advanced scene. EACH sought to reformulate the artistic circuits under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
In 1980 Eltit published his first book a mile of crosses on the pavement, a volume of essays. The previous year he had already dabbled in fiction. However his first novel Lumperica appeared in 1983.
Since 1990, the work of Diamela Eltit circumscribed when national redemocratization. In 1991 he traveled to cultural how added Mexico (position which held until 1994), where ended Holy cow (1991). He also actively collaborated in the journal Cultural critique and in other media. While residing there, developed together with photographer Paz Errazuriz, a book of a nature documentary about love and Madness: infarction of the soul, published in 1994. The following year he received his first award, the Joseph Walnut Martin Award, conferred by the Catholic University of Chile.
Three novels of Eltit integrated list selected in 2007 by 81 writers and critical Latin Americans and Spaniards for the Colombian magazine week of the one hundred best novels in English of the past 25 years, i.e., after 1982: Lumperica (No. 58), the Fourth World (No. 67) and watchmen (No. 100).
Eltit’s works are translated into English, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek.

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