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Jorge Edwards Valdés (b.1931) is a Chilean novelist, winner of the 1999 Cervantes Prize.

Life and career

Jorge Edwards is a Chilean novelist and journalist. He was born on June 29, 1931. He went to Law School at Universidad de Chile.
   During the presidency of Salvador Allende, Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in Havana, Cuba. But only three months later, the government of Fidel Castro declared him persona non grata. From this episode he wrote, perhaps, his most famous novel, Persona non grata (1971).

Awards and honors

Novels

  • El peso de la noche (1965)
  • Persona non grata (1973)
  • Los convidados de piedra (1978)
  • El museo de cera (1981)
  • La mujer imaginaria (1985)
  • El anfitrión (1987)
  • El origen del mundo (1996)
  • El sueño de la historia (2000)
  • El inútil de la familia (2004), about Joaquín Edwards Bello.
  • La Casa de Dostoievsky (2008)

    Journalist work

    Jorge Edwards writes in several newspapers in Chile, Latin america (La Nación, Buenos Aires) and Europe (Le Monde, Paris; and El País, Madrid). A big portion of his journalistic work has been recollected in two books:
  • El whisky de los poetas (1997)
  • Diálogos en un tejado (2003)

    Other books

    He has also written essays and biographies:
  • Desde la cola del dragón (1973)
  • Adiós, poeta (about Pablo Neruda, 1990)
  • Machado de Assís (about the Brazilian writter Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 2002)Further Information

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