Carlos Cerda
Carlos Cerda (born 1942 in Santiago de Chile , † October 19, 2001 ) was a Chilean writer .
Life
After graduating, Cerda received a lectureship in philosophy. From 1971 he was editor of the newspaper El Siglo , the organ of the Communist Party of Chile . After the coup in Chile in 1973 , Cerda emigrated. In Colombia he published a report about the bombing of the Moneda Palace.
In 1975 Cerda staged his play The Night of the Soldier at the Rostock Volkstheater . In the GDR he then worked in the Romance Studies section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1976, Aufbau-Verlag published the short story collection Encounters with Time , and in 1978 the novel Christmas bread .
In 1985 Cerda received the GDR radio play authors' award from the critics for Die Zwillinge von Calanda or About Some Laws in the Development of Political Phenomena , and in 1989 the same award for No Traveler Without Luggage . In 1993, Luchterhand Literaturverlag published his novel Santiago-Berlin, simple . It is about the life of Chilean refugees in the GDR.
Cerda succumbed to cancer a few days before the beginning of the 21st Feria del Libro de Santiago book fair .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carlos Cerda in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cerda, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2001 |