Ariel Dorfman
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Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a Chilean author , playwright , essayist and human rights activist.
Life
After his birth, his family moved to the USA and finally to Chile in 1954. Dorfman attended the University of Chile, where he later became a professor.
From 1970 to 1973 he worked for the government of then President Salvador Allende . He was forced into exile in the United States by the bloody military coup under Augusto Pinochet in 1973.
He has been teaching at Duke University of North Carolina since 1985 , where he is professor of Latin American Studies and the Walter Hines Page Research Professorship of Literature.
Since the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990, Dorfman has shared the center of his life between Santiago de Chile and the USA.
His work often deals with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, with the traces of exile. Its probably best-known work Death and the Maiden ( Death and the Maiden / La muerte y la doncella to have been) is about the encounter of a former torture victim with the man whom she believes tortured. It was the 1994 Roman Polanski with Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley filmed .
When Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, he followed the trials against him in London and Santiago de Chile; he reported extensively on this, including for the Spanish newspaper El País . He also wrote the book Conquering Terror: The Long Shadow of Augusto Pinochet on that very subject.
In 2001 Dorfman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Works
Plays and scripts (selection)
- 1987 - Widows (Together with Tony Kushner )
- 1988 - My House is on Fire
- 1991 - Death and the Maiden ( Death and the Maiden / La muerte y la doncella ) (Along with Rafael Yglesias wrote, was the 1994 Roman Polanski filmed)
- 1995 - Prisoners in Time ( Written with Rodrigo Dorfman )
Books
- 1972 - Para leer al Pato Donald (together with Armand Mattelart ); engl. Übers. David Kunzle: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic . International General, London 1975. 2nd edition 1979, ISBN 0-88477-023-0
- 1979 - Culture and Resistance in Chile - Dreaming of another world, living ahead of it, preparing it
- 1979 - Desaparecer - lose sight of (poems)
- 1989 - The tyrant passes (stories and sketches)
- 1997 - La muerte y la doncella . ISBN 3-464-12519-X
- 1998 - The Uprising of the Magic Bunnies (picture book). ISBN 3-596-85030-4
- 2000 - Cristobal's son and the journey of the iceberg. ISBN 3-203-76046-0
- 2001 - heading south, looking north
- 2002 - Death and the Maiden ( La muerte y la doncella ). ISBN 3-596-11426-8
- 2002 - The last song of Manuel Sendero.
- 2003 - Conquering Terror: The Long Shadow of Augusto Pinochet. ISBN 3-89458-223-5
- 2007 - The memory of the desert. ISBN 978-3-89405-821-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Ariel Dorfman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ariel Dorfman at perlentaucher.de
- Ariel Dorfman's profile at Duke University
- Ariel Dorfman's Memoirs, Heading South, Looking North ( March 23, 2005 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Death and the Maiden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ariel Dorfman at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 1988 Audio Interview with Ariel Dorfman ( RealAudio )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ariel Dorfman ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Homepage of Ariel Dorfman.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorfman, Ariel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean author and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |