Volodia Teitelboim
Volodia Teitelboim (born March 17, 1916 in Chillán , † January 31, 2008 in Santiago de Chile ; actually Valentín Teitelboim Volosky ) was a Chilean-Jewish communist and writer .
Life
He was best known as a friend of Pablo Neruda , about whom he also wrote a biography (as well as about Jorge Luis Borges , Gabriela Mistral and Vicente Huidobro ) .
In 1943 he published the essay "El amanecer del capitalismo y la conquista de América" ("The dawn of capitalism and the conquest of America").
He was the adoptive father of Claudio Teitelboim .
Works (selection)
- Hijo del salitre (son of saltpeter, 1952)
- The song of the pampas (Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1955)
- Pisagua. La semilla en la arena (Pisagua. The seed in the sand, 1957)
- El pan y las estrellas (The Bread and the Stars, 1973)
- Pólvora del exilio (The Gunpowder of Exile, 1976)
- The internal war (Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1983)
- La palabra y la sangre (The Word and the Blood, 1986)
- Pablo Neruda. A Path of Life (Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1987)
Web links
- Literature by and about Volodia Teitelboim in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography (span.)
Ramón Sepúlveda Leal (1922-1924) | Galvarino Gil (1924-1925) | Maclovio Segundo Galdames (1925-1926) | José Santos Zavala (1927) | Isaías Iriarte (1927–1929) | Carlos Contreras Labarca (1931-1946) | Ricardo Fonseca (1946-1949) | Galo González Díaz (1949–1958) | Luis Corvalán Lepe (1958–1990) | Volodia Teitelboim (1990-1994) | Gladys Marín (1994-2002) | Guillermo Teillier (2002–2005) | Lautaro Carmona (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teitelboim, Volodia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valentín Teitelboim Volosky |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chillan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2008 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |