Ariel Dorfman

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Ariel Dorfman
academic, and human rights
activist
Years active1968–present
Spouse
Angélica Malinarich
​
(m. 1966)​
Children2, including Rodrigo Dorfman
Websitearieldorfman.com

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an

Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina
, since 1985.

Background and education

Dorfman was born in

Odessa (then Russian Empire) to a well-to-do Jewish family,[2] and became a prominent Argentine professor of economics and the author of Historia de la Industria Argentina, and Fanny Zelicovich Dorfman, who was born in Kishinev of Bessarabian Jewish descent.[3][4]

Shortly after his birth, they moved to the United States, where he spent his first ten years of childhood in New York until his family was forced to relocate due to political tensions.

University of California at Berkeley
and then returned to Chile.

Since the

Santiago
and the United States.

Career

From 1970 to 1973, Dorfman served as a cultural adviser to President

Latin American Studies
.

Dorfman details his life of exile and bi-cultural living in his memoir, Heading South, Looking North, which has been acclaimed by Elie Wiesel, Nadine Gordimer, Thomas Keneally and others.[citation needed]

In 2020 he wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “Fifty years ago today, on the night of Sept. 4, 1970, I was dancing, along with a multitude of others, in the streets of Santiago de Chile. We were celebrating the election of Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected socialist leader in the world. President Allende’s victory had historical significance beyond Chile. Before then, political revolutions had been violent, imposed by force of arms. Allende and his left-wing coalition used peaceful means, proclaiming it unnecessary to repress one’s adversaries to achieve social justice. Radical change could happen within the confines and promises of a democracy. I have often fantasized about how different the world would be if Allende had not been overthrown, three years later, in a bloody coup. I wonder where humanity would be if his peaceful revolution had been allowed to run its course and become a template for other countries.”[7]

Literary work

Dorfman in 2007

Dorfman's work often deals with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, the trials of exile. In an interview in

Thandie Newton, Tom Goodman-Hill, and Anthony Calf. The story was adapted in 2020 into a second English-language film, The Secrets We Keep, directed by Yuval Adler, screenplay by Adler and Ryan Covington, and starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, and Chris Messina
.

His thesis on

Santiago, Chile, in 1968 (124 pages).[9] Pinter later became a personal friend as well as an influence on Dorfman's work and political thinking.[10]

A critic of Pinochet, he has written extensively about the General's extradition case for the Spanish newspaper El País and other publications, and in the book Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Rather than distinguishing between politics and art, Dorfman believes "that one’s writing is deeply political," and, at its best, "engages the major dilemmas...of the community."[8]

Dorfman's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and performed in over 100 countries. Besides poetry, essays and novels— Hard Rain, winner of the Sudamericana Award; Widows; The Last Song of Manuel Sendero; Mascara; Konfidenz; The Nanny and the Iceberg, and Blake's Therapy—he has written short stories, including My House Is on Fire, and general nonfiction including The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the

Kennedy Center Theater Awards. In 1996, with his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for Prisoners in Time. His poems, collected in Last Waltz in Santiago and In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land, have been turned into a half-hour fictional film, Deadline, featuring the voices of Emma Thompson, Bono, Harold Pinter
, and others.

Dorfman's

New York's Public Theater, directed by David Esbjornson, and featuring an all-star cast of Elias Koteas, Marcia Gay Harden, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Gloria Reuben, Paul Sorvino, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Debra Winger
.

Dorfman's play The Other Side had its world premiere at the

Picasso, had its premiere at Theater J in Washington, D.C. in 2006.[12]

He is also the subject of a feature-length documentary, A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, based on his memoir Heading South, Looking North and directed by Peter Raymont. The film had its world premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2007. In November 2007, the film was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 films on its documentary feature Oscar shortlist. The list was narrowed to five films on January 22, 2008,[13] and A Promise to the Dead was not among the five Oscar-nominated documentaries.

His latest works include the

Carme Elias
.

Dorfman currently has several film projects in development with his sons, Rodrigo and Joaquin Dorfman, including a screen adaptation of his novel, Blake’s Therapy.

Dorfman also writes regularly for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (where he has a featured blog), Le Monde and L'Unità.

He is a member of L'Académie Universelle des Cultures, in Paris, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected books

Articles

  • "Defending Allende",
    socialist
    state through nonviolent, democratic means." (p. 73.)

Documentaries

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ariel Dorfman Home Page". 2016.
  2. ISBN 0374168628
    .
  3. ^ "Ariel Dorfman's Bedroom War". by Jerry Tallmer for thevillager.com. December 27, 2005. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
  4. ^ "Ariel Dorfman Interview". by Danny Postel for The Progressive. December 13, 1998.
  5. ^ "ARIEL DORFMAN". ARIEL DORFMAN. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  6. ^ (in Spanish) El largo exilio de Ariel Dorfman Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Dorfman, Ariel (4 September 2020). "I danced in the streets after Allende's victory in Chile 50 years ago. Now I see its lessons for today". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  8. ^
    BOMB Magazine
    . Winter 1995. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  9. OCLC: 1400001. Web
    . 9 Jan. 2009.
  10. ^ Ariel Dorfman (27 December 2008). "The World That Harold Pinter Unlocked". The Washington Post. p. A15. Retrieved 27 January 2009. cf. Ariel Dorfman (8 January 2009). "You want to free the world from oppression? ("Ariel Dorfman on the life and work of Harold Pinter (1930–2008)")". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
  11. ^ "Speak Truth to Power". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  12. ^ Barry, John (2006-06-30). "Dorfman Limns a Tangle of Ethics in 'Picasso'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  13. ^ "Shortlist for docu Oscar unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. 2007-11-20. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2007-12-21.

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