Luis Sepúlveda

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Luis Sepúlveda (2014)
Luis Sepúlveda in Arona while signing books (2006)

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (born October 4, 1949 in Ovalle , Chile , † April 16, 2020 in Oviedo , Spain ) was a Chilean writer , director , journalist and political activist.

Life

Luis Sepúlveda was born to a Mapuche nurse and a restaurant owner organized in the Communist Party of Chile . His grandfather was an Andalusian anarchist in exile .

After withdrawing a scholarship from Moscow's Lomonosov University , Sepúlveda studied stage technology in Chile . In his youth he joined the Chilean section of the Bolivian ELN . He was a member of President Salvador Allende's bodyguard until his death as a result of the coup in Chile on September 11, 1973. Under the Pinochet dictatorship, he was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Under global pressure, mainly due to the interventions of the German section of Amnesty International , his detention was commuted to house arrest . However, he fled and went underground for a year, where he founded a theater company in Valparaíso and participated in the resistance. After his second arrest, he was sentenced to 28 years as a political prisoner and served in Temuco Prison . Another worldwide protest reduced the prison sentence in eight years of exile . During the deportation he escaped in Argentina. He finally got to Ecuador via Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay .

In Quito , Sepúlveda founded a theater group for Peru , Ecuador and Colombia . He later joined the Sandinistas in Nicaragua .

After Germany granted him asylum , he lived in Hamburg for over ten years from 1980 . Sepúlveda drove as a truck driver on the Hamburg – Istanbul route . In Hamburg he campaigned for the anti-fascist and ecological movement. From 1982 to 1987 he was a crew member on a Greenpeace ship and was involved in whale protection. He also worked as a journalist for Der Spiegel (including during the war in Angola ) and for UNESCO .

After separating from his German wife and another exile in France , Luis Sepúlveda lived in Gijón, Spain, since 1996 .

In late February 2020, Sepúlveda tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain . He died on April 16, 2020 at the age of 70 as a result of the disease.

Works (selection)

His best-known novel is Un viejo que leía novelas de amor (The old man who read romance novels) , which was published in 1989 and has been translated into 46 languages. The novel is considered to be the “flawless defense of the Amazon jungle” and the Shuar culture . Many of Sepúlveda's works deal with ecological themes or contain autobiographical elements .

  • Crónica de Pedro Nadie . 1969.
  • Los miedos, las vidas, las muertes y otras alucinaciones . 1986.
  • Cuaderno de viaje . 1987.
  • Mundo del fin del mundo . 1989. German: The world at the end of the world .
  • Un viejo que leía novelas de amor . 1989. German: The old man who read romance novels . dtv, 2002, ISBN 3-423-12997-2 .
  • La frontera extraviada . 1994.
  • Nombre de torero . 1994. German: The trail leads to Tierra del Fuego . 1997, ISBN 3-924737-48-7 .
  • Al andar se hace el camino se hace el camino al andar . 1995. German: Patagonia Express . 1998.
  • Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar . 1996. German: How the cat Zorbas taught the little seagull to fly . Fischer Schatzinsel, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-596-85021-5 .
  • Diario de un killer sentimental . 1998. German: Diary of a sentimental killer . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-446-19662-5 .
  • Desencuentros . 1997. German: How one can see the sea . dtv, 2005, ISBN 3-423-13297-3 .
  • Hot line . 2002.
  • Moleskine, apuntes y reflexiones . 2004.
  • Historias marginales . PLANETA, 2007, ISBN 978-84-322-1752-4 .
  • Yacaré .
  • Plot: Primera parte de una antologia irresponsable .
  • La sombra de lo que fuimos . 2009. German: The shadow of what we were . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85869-455-3 .
  • Historia deMax, de Mix y de Mex , relato. Ill. De Noemi Villamura. Espasa, Barcelona 2012.

Prizes and awards (selection)

Luis Sepúlveda has received the following literary awards, among others:

  • Premio Gabriela Mistral de poesía (1976)
  • Premio Tigre Juan de novela (1988) (Prize for literature on ecological topics)
  • Premio de relatos cortos "La Felguera" (La Felguera Prize for short prose)

Movie

  • Luis Sepúlveda. Resistance from the end of the world. (OT: Luis Sepúlveda, lécrivain du bout du monde. ) Documentary film, France, 2011, 43:30 min., Script and director: Sylvie Deleule, production: Drôle de Trame, arte France, German first broadcast: October 9, 2011 on arte , Summary of ARD .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Luis Sepulveda. taz , September 9, 2003, accessed January 19, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Luis Sepúlveda: Pinochet sans peine ni gloire. Le Monde diplomatique , January 2007, accessed January 20, 2009 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c Luis Sepulveda, Trade Union Forum Hanover: Mass strike + political situation in Chile. (No longer available online.) Linke Zeitung, December 2, 2008, archived from the original on December 5, 2008 ; Retrieved January 20, 2009 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linkezeitung.de
  4. ↑ Luis Sepúlveda. fischerverlage, accessed on January 18, 2009 .
  5. ↑ a b Luis Sepúlveda. Crime Couch, accessed January 18, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Chilean author, campaigner and escapee Luis Sepúlveda dies aged 70 of Covid-19 , The Guardian of April 16, 2020. (English)
  7. ↑ Ralph Hammerthaler: Literature - Luis Sepúlveda is dead. Accessed June 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Luis Sepúlveda: How to See the Sea; Desencuentros. Cervantes, accessed January 18, 2009 .
  9. ↑ ElPais.com: El escritor chileno Luis Sequlveda primer afectado por coronavirus en asturias
  10. ^ Morreu o escritor chileno Luis Sepúlveda com Covid-19. In: dinheirovivo.pt. April 16, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Sepúlveda, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sepúlveda Calfucura, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean writer, director, journalist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Oval
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2020
Place of death Oviedo