Adriana Valdés
Adriana Valdés Budge | |
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| Born | Adriana Valdés Budge October 3, 1943 Santiago , Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Literary movement | Essayist |
| Notable awards | 2010 Altazor Prize in literary essay category for her book of Enrique Lihn |
Adriana Valdés Budge (born October 3, 1943 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean writer essayist.
Biography
Valdés studied at the Catholic University of Chile. 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 Enrique Lihn, "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.[1] She was reelected to this position in 2013.
She received the 2010
In 2018 she received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in the Essay category for Redefinir lo humano: las humanidades en el siglo XXI.[6]
Books
- Composición de lugar. Escritos sobre cultura. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1996.
- Memorias visuales. Arte contemporáneo en Chile. Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2006.
- Enrique Lihn: 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.[7]
References
- ^ "Nómina de miembros" (in Spanish). Academia Chilena de la Lengua. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ^ "Adriana Valdés" (in Spanish). Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ^ El Mercurio April 20, 2014
- ^ Altazor Archived November 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Biography Catholic University of Chile". Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ^ "Estos son los ganadores de los Premios Literarios de Santiago 2018" [These are the Winners of the 2018 Santiago Literature Awards]. La Tercera Culto (in Spanish). November 29, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ^ "critic and essayist Valdés Budge". Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
External links
- Speech welcoming Pedro Lastra (video, in Spanish)
- with Adriana Valdés (video interview in Spanish)
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