Diamela Eltit

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Diamela Eltit
Universidad Católica de Chile, University of Chile
GenreNovella, essay
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, 1985
National Prize for Literature (Chile), 2018
Carlos Fuentes Prize, 2020
FIL Award, 2021
SpouseJorge Arrate

Diamela Eltit (

Santiago de Chile, 1947[1]) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature
.

Life

Diamela Eltit graduated from college from

Universidad de Chile
in Santiago. In 1977, she began a teaching career in public high schools in Santiago, including
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
and abroad.

She has been held visiting professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis, and University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia. Since 2007, New York University, she has been a distinguished global visiting professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish.[2] Eltit was the 2014–2015 Simon Bolivar Chair at the Center of Latin American Studies at Cambridge.[3]

In 2013 Princeton University acquired her archive, which includes manuscripts, letters, and photographs.[3]

In 1973, after the military coup in Chile,[4] she started publishing her writings. When democracy returned in 1990 she became a cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in Mexico until 1994. She was a representative of the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Council. She writes opinions por El Desconcierto, both in Santiago.

In 1979, Eltit created together with the poet Raúl Zurita, the visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells the Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA), a vanguard group part of the so-called Escena de Avanzada. CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under the Pinochet dictatorship.[3]

In 1980, Eltit published her first book, Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento, a volume of essays. Her first novel, Lumpérica, appeared in 1983

sexuality, authoritarianism
, domestic life and gender identity. Eltit was part of this new generation and not only articulated an original literary project —a theoretical, esthetic, social and political proposal with a new reading space as perspective—, but also developed a visual work as a member of CADA".

Several of Eltit’s novels have been staged by different theater groups and translated into other languages. In 2012 the Spanish editorial house Periférica reached an agreement with Diamela Eltit to republish all her novels.[5]

Three of Eltit novels were chosen as part of the list selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics for the Colombian journal Semana of the 100 best novels in Spanish language in the last 25 years: Lumpérica (Nº58), El cuarto mundo (Nº67) y Los vigilantes (Nº100). In 2016 the journal Babelia, in Spain, selected one of Eltit's novels as one of the best 25 of century XXI.

Eltit's work has been the object of many studies.

Universidad Católica de Chile
organized the Coloquio Internacional de Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje a Diamela Eltit, which resulted in the book Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales (Iberoamericana, 2009)

Eltit has two daughters and a son. She is married to Jorge Arrate, lawyer and economist. Her husband is the former president of the Socialist Party. In 2009 he was a presidential candidate representing a coalition between the Communist Party and socialist, humanist and Christian left groups.

Works

Selected bibliography

  • Página de Eltit en Memoria Chilena, con fotos, cronología y artículos y libros que se pueden descargar gratuita y legalmente
  • Eltit en Letras.s5
  • Eltit en Editorial Planeta Chile
  • Eltit lee el relato Colonizadas, UNAM, audio 24:51; acceso 23.01.2012
  • “La unión madre-hija es la pareja más débil de la cultura”, entrevista a Eltit sobre la novela Impuesto a la carne; portal de la editorial & librería Eterna Cadencia, 02.05.2011; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Ezequiel Alemián. Una escritura política y sin anestesia para retratar a América Latina, entrevista con motivo de la publicación de Impuesto a la carne;
    Clarín
    , 13.12.2010; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Leonidas Morales. Género y Hegemonía en 'El infarto del alma'
  • Cortometraje inspirado en El infarto del alma
  • Bernardita Llanos Mardones. El sujeto explosionado: Eltit y la geografía del discurso del padre, ensayo sobre El padre mío; Literatura y lingüística Nº10, 1997; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Tres novelas (Los vigilantes, El cuarto mundo y Mano de obra) en Google book

Awards and accolades

References

  1. ^ "Editorial Planeta (Diamela Eltit's Publishing House)". www.planetadelibros.cl. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  2. ^ a b "Diamela Eltit". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  3. ^ a b c "Diamela Eltit | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  4. ^ "Diamela Eltit by Julio Ortega - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. January 2001. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  5. ^ www.inmedia-estudio.com. "Editorial Periférica". www.editorialperiferica.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-18.

External links

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