Jaime Collyer

Jaime Collyer (* 1955 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean writer , essayist, translator and university professor.

Life

Studied architecture and psychology at the Universidad de Chile . 1981 emigrated to Spain, there postgraduate studies in development sociology, international relations and political science. Return to Chile after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. For a short time editor-in-chief of the publishing house “ Planeta Chilena ”. Collyer now teaches literary studies and creative writing at the private university “ Diego Portales ”.

Services

Jaime Collyer is considered one of the leading personalities of the “ nueva narrativa chilena ”, an unclearly defined literary movement in Chilean literature of the 1990s. In 1992, his polemical article "Casus belli" served in the APSI magazine as one of the few manifestos of the young generation of writers who were not organized in an institutionally.

Collyer's importance as a writer is based primarily on his short stories , which thematically and narratologically follow the tradition of the great Latin American storytellers - above all Jorge Luis Borges . What is noticeable is the effort to leave the limited horizon of Chile and avoid a “regionalist” spelling. Collyer's novels are much more controversial. In 1995, “Cien pájaros volando” caused a minor scandal, as the subject of sodomy was played too clearly here.

Works

Novels

El infiltrado (1989)
Cien pájaros volando (1995)
El habitante del cielo (2002)
La fidelidad presunta de las partes (2009)
Fulgor (2011)

stories

Gente al acecho (1998)
La bestia en casa (1998)
La voz del amo (2005)

Children's books

Hacia el nuevo mundo (1986)

literature

Karl Kohut, José Morales Saravia: Literatura chilena hoy . Vervuert, Frankfurt / Main 2002, ISBN 3-89354-922-6
Matthias Wölfel: La literatura como diagnóstico de la sociedad enferma - dos novelas de Jaime Collyer . In: Roland Spiller et al. (Ed.): Memoria, duelo y narración. Chile después de Pinochet: literatura, cine, sociedad . Vervuert, Frankfurt / Main 2004, ISBN 3-86527-146-4

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personal data
SURNAME	Collyer, Jaime
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile