Hernán Rivera Letelier

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Hernán Rivera Letelier

Hernán Rivera Letelier (born July 11, 1950 in Talca , Chile ) is a Chilean author who is best known for his depictions of life in the Chilean saltpetre mining areas.

Life

After his birth, Hernán Rivera Letelier's family moved to the mining region of the north of Chile to the mining settlement of Algorta. After the mine was closed there, it moved to Antofagasta . After his mother's death, the children were distributed among the aunts. Letelier himself stayed alone in Antofagasta, got by selling newspapers and was an errand boy for the nitrate company Anglo Lautaro (today: Soquimich). At 17 he went on hikes that took him to Bolivia , Peru , Ecuador and Argentina . After three years of wandering, he returned to work in Antofagasta in 1973 and married a 17-year-old woman at the age of 24.

He worked in the saltpeter mine "Pedro de Valdivia" and graduated from school in evening classes. He was later admitted to high school teaching after receiving training at INACAP . Today (2011) he lives in Antofagasta with his wife and four children.

Honors and prizes (selection)

• 1994: Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro (Chile) in the category: Unpublished work for La reina Isabel cantaba rancheras
• 1996: Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro, also in the Unpublished Work category for Himno del ángel parado en una pata
• 2001: Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , France
• 2010: Premio Alfaguara de Novela , Spain for El arte de la resurrección

Works (selection)

• Poemas y pomadas. Poems; Editorial Eléctrica Chilena, Santiago de Chile 1987.
• Cuentos breves y cuescos de brevas. Short stories; Ediciones del Taller de Literatura "Recital", Antofagasta 1990
• La reina Isabel cantaba rancheras. Novel; Editorial Planeta, 1994.
  • Praise to a whore. Translated by Catalina Rojas Hauser. Krieger, Frankfurt am Main 1999. ISBN 3-8105-1621-X .
• Fatamorgana de amor con banda de musica . Editorial Planeta, 1998.
  • The deception of love , novel. Translated by Svenja Becker. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-17565-0 .
• Donde mueren los valientes , relatos. Editorial Sudamericana, Santiago de Chile 1999, ISBN 95-62620883 .
• Las trenes ve van al purgatorio , Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000, ISBN 95-04904149 .
• El fantasista. Novel; Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones, Santiago de Chile 2006.
  • The dream kicker. Translated by Svenja Becker. Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-17533-9 .
• La contadora de películas. Novel; Editorial Alfaguara, Barcelona 2009, ISBN 978-84-204-2359-3 .
  • The film teller. Translated by Svenja Becker. Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17495-0 .
  • La contadora de películas (Spanish text for school lessons, with explanations of words). Edited by Klaus A. Amann and Sara Marín Barrera. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-019919-0 .
• The arte de la resurrección. Novel; Editorial Alfaguara, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-204-0603-9 .
• El escritor de epitafios. Novel; Editorial Alfaguara, Barcelona 2011.
• La muerte es una vieja historia . Editorial Alfaguara, Barcelona 2015.
• La muerte tiene olor a Pachulí . Editorial Alfaguara, Barcelona 2016.

Web links

• Biography (es.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A book made of 24 frames per second. In: FAZ . August 15, 2011, p. 24.
2. ↑ Bitter Glory Der Spiegel , 8/2011