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Diamela Eltit

Diamela Eltit(Santiago de Chile,1947[1]) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of theNational Prize for Literature.

Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit, 2018
Diamela Eltit, 2018
BornDiamela Eltit González
1947
Santiago,Chile
OccupationPoet
Professor
Alma materUniversidad 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

Life

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Diamela Eltit graduated from college fromUniversidad Católica de Chileand pursued graduate studies in Literature at theUniversidad de Chilein Santiago. In 1977, she began a teaching career in public high schools in Santiago, includingInstituto NacionalandLiceo Carmela Carvajal.In 1984, she started teaching at universities in Chile, where she is currently professor at theUniversidad Tecnológica Metropolitanaand abroad.

She has held visiting professorships at theUniversity of California at Berkeley,Johns Hopkins University,Stanford University,Washington University in St. Louis,andUniversity 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 inMexicountil 1994. She was a representative of the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Council. She writes opinions porEl Desconcierto,both in Santiago.

In 1979, Eltit created together with the poetRaúl Zurita,the visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells theColectivo de Acciones de Arte(CADA), a vanguard group part of the so-calledEscena de Avanzada.CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under thePinochetdictatorship.[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[2]in Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, a small editorial from Santiago. The text dedicated to Eltit in the internet cultural portalMemoria Chilena,explains that 1980s was complicated for the Chilean intellectuals that had to elaborate strategies to publish and circulate their work in a cultural environment where censorship existed. In this context, women publications were a significant contribution because they generated renewed spaces of thinking on political issues and subjects assexuality,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 journalSemanaof the 100 best novels in Spanish language in the last 25 years:Lumpérica(Nº58),El cuarto mundo(Nº67) yLos vigilantes(Nº100). In 2016 the journalBabelia,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.Casa de las Américas,in La Habana, dedicated to Eltit herSemana de Autorin 2002, and in 2006, theUniversidad Católica de Chileorganized theColoquio Internacional de Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje a Diamela Eltit,which resulted in the bookDiamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales(Iberoamericana, 2009)

Eltit has two daughters and a son. She is married toJorge 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

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  • Lumpérica,Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1983); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena; translated into English by Ronald Christ under the titleE. Luminata(Lumen Books, 2008,ISBN978-0930829407)
  • Por la patria,Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1986); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • El cuarto mundo,Novel (Planeta, Santiago, 1988); translated into English by Dick Gerdes under the titleThe Fourth World(University of Nebraska Press, 1995,ISBN9780803267237)
  • El padre mío,libro de testimonios (Francisco Zegers, editor, Santiago, 1989); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Vaca sagrada,Novel (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1991); translated into English by Amanda Hopkinson under the titleSacred Cow(Serpent's Tail, 1994,ISBN9781852422875)
  • Elena Caffarena: El derecho a voz, el derecho a voto ", Essay (Casa de Chile en México, México, 1993)
  • El infarto del alma,libro documental, con fotografías de Paz Errázuriz (1994)
  • Los vigilantes,novela (Sudamericana, Santiago, 1994); translated into English by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ under the titleCustody of the Eyes(Lumen Books, 2005,ISBN9780930829568,OCLC63789755)
  • Crónica del sufragio femenino en Chile,Essay, Servicio Nacional de la Mujer SERNAM, Santiago, 1994; descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Los trabajadores de la muerte,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 1998)
  • Emergencias,Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Planeta, Santiago, 2000)
  • Mano de obra,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2002); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Puño y letra,sobreCarlos Prats(Seix Barral, Santiago, 2005). Aunque publicado por la editorial como novela, Eltit reconoce que no lo es: "Lo que sí le puedo decir taxativamente es que no es una novela, no lo es, más allá de que la editorial la incluya bajo ese prisma".14
  • Jamás el fuego nunca,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2007)
  • Signos vitales,Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Ediciones UDP,Santiago, 2007)
  • Colonizadas, relato en la antología Excesos del cuerpo,Ficciones de contagio y enfermedad en América Latina (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2009)
  • Impuesto a la carne,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago / Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2010)
  • Antología personal,Anthology (Editorial de laUniversidad de Talca,2012)
  • Fuerzas especiales,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2013)
  • Réplicas,Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2016)
  • Dos guiones,Plays (Sangría Editora, Santiago, 2017). Incluye los guiones "La invitación, el instructivo" (2006, Mediometraje dirigido porLotty Rosenfelde incluido en su instalación "Cuenta regresiva" ) y "¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?" (2001)
  • Sumar,Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2018)
  • El ojo en la mira,Essay/Literary autobiography (Ampersand, Argentina, 2021)

Selected bibliography

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^"Editorial Planeta (Diamela Eltit's Publishing House)".planetadelibros.cl.Retrieved2023-01-17.
  2. ^ab"Diamela Eltit".as.nyu.edu.Retrieved2018-01-29.
  3. ^abc"Diamela Eltit | Hammer Museum".hammer.ucla.edu.Retrieved2020-09-07.
  4. ^"Diamela Eltit by Julio Ortega - BOMB Magazine".bombmagazine.org.January 2001.Retrieved2018-01-29.
  5. ^inmedia-estudio."Editorial Periférica".editorialperiferica(in European Spanish).Retrieved2018-09-18.
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