Óscar Hahn

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Óscar Hahn

Óscar Hahn , actually Óscar Arturo Hahn Garcés , (* 1938 in Iquique , Chile ) is a Chilean literary scholar and writer.

Life

Hahn is a son of Ralph Hahn Valdés and his wife Enriqueta Garcés Sánchez. Hahn completed his school years at the Colegio Salesiano Don Bosco (Iquique), the Liceo de Hombres ( Valdivia ) and the Liceo Óscar Castro ( Rancagua ). He then studied at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica .

In the fall of 1973 General Augusto Pinochet put himself to power and in the spring of the following year Hahn went into exile in the United States . There he received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park . At the same time, he was appointed to the Library of Congress in 1978 to work on the Handbook of Latin American Studies .

Hahn finished this work in 1988 and accepted a position as Professor of Spanish Literature and Spanish Language at the University of Iowa . With effect from October 21, 1991 Hahn was accepted as a corresponding member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of Language).

Honors

Works (selection)

Poetry
  • Agua final . 1967.
  • Arete de morir . 1977.
  • Esta rosa negra . 1961.
  • Estrellas fijas en un cielo blanco . 1989.
  • Imágenes nucleares . 1983.
  • Poemas robados . 1996.
  • Love among the ruins. Amor bajo las ruinas , Spanish / German. Rimbaud , Aachen 2012.
  • The rain passenger. El pasajero de la lluvia , Spanish / German. Rimbaud, Aachen 2013.
Essays
  • El cuento fantástico hispano-americano en el siglo XIX . 1978.
  • Fundadores del cuento fantástico hispano-americano . 1998.
  • Magia de las escritura . 2001.
  • Texto sobre Texto . 1984.
  • Vicente Huidobro or el atentado celeste .

literature

  • Gustavo A. Calderón: Óscar Hahn y Ernesto Cardenal . Los poetas del Apocalipsis en Latinoamérica . Lang, New York 1996, ISBN 0-8204-2759-4 .
  • Enrique Lihn: (Ed.): Asedios a Óscar Hahn. Con ocasión de los 50 años . University Press, Santiago de Chile 1989, ISBN 956-11-0121-0 .
  • Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 260-261.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Eva Goldschmidt Wyman (ed.): Los poetas y el general. Voces de oposición en Chile bajo Augusto Pinochet . Lom ediciones, Santiago de Chile 2002. ISBN 956-282-491-8 . P. 470.

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Óscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn Garcés, Óscar Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean poet, professor at the University of Iowa
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Iquique , Chile