Rodrigo Díaz Cortez

Rodrigo Díaz Cortez (* 1977 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean writer.

Life

In 2000 his first book was published, the volume of short stories "La taberna del vacío". With the proceeds he financed a one-way flight to Spain , where he financed his living as an aircraft loader and car parker and wrote on the side. In 2007 his first novel “Tridente de plata” was awarded the Premio Mario Vargas Llosa. The prize money enabled him to acquire a taxi driver's license. His second novel "Poeta bajo el mar" made it into the final round of the literary prizes "Premio Ciudad de Barbastro" in 2008 and "Qué Leer" in 2010. Díaz Cortez now lives in Barcelona , where he runs a writing workshop, works on a cultural magazine and drives a taxi.

Works

• La taberna del vacío. Santiago de Chile, 2000.
• Tridente de plata. Murcia, 2008, ISBN 978-84-8371-788-2 .
• El pequeño comandante. Santiago de Chile, 2011, ISBN 978-956-8228-36-1 .
• El peor de los guerreros. Barcelona, ​​2011, ISBN 978-84-15070-07-8 .
  • German: the worst of all warriors. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-03535-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rodrigo Díaz Cortez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by Díaz Cortez in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
• Rodrigo Díaz Cortez's Facebook page
• The dust of improvement by Mirjam Schmitt (review of the novel The worst of all warriors , 2015)