Jorge Edwards
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Jorge Edwards Valdés (29 June 1931 – 17 March 2023)[1] was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastián Piñera presidency.
Life and career[edit]
Edwards attended law school at the Universidad de Chile.
During the presidency of Salvador Allende, Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in Havana,Cuba, but only three months later, the decided to leave the island. From this episode he wrote what is perhaps his most famous work, Persona non grata (1971), which made him world famous, in which he criticized the Cuban government.
In June 1994, Edwards accepted the post of Ambassador for Chile before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has its headquarters in Paris, a city where Edwards resided for many years.[2] Edwards lived in Santiago de Chile.
In 2008, his novel La Casa de Dostoievsky won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, worth $200,000.[3]
In 2010, Edwards was granted Spanish citizenship by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.[4]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 1979 He entered the Academia Chilena de la Lengua
- 1994 Chilean National Prize for Literature
- 1999 Cervantes Prize
- 2000 Gabriela Mistral Order of Educational and Cultural Merit
- 2008 Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa
- 2016 Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise[5]
Bibliography[edit]
Jorge Edwards was the youngest of the Edwards Valdés siblings (Carmen, Laura, Angélica, Luis Germán and himself); on their mother's side (Valdés) they descend directly from José Miguel Carrera.
Short stories[edit]
- El patio (1962)
- Gente de la ciudad (1961)
- Las máscaras (1967)
- Temas y variaciones (1969)
- Fantasmas de carne y hueso (1993)
Novels[edit]
- El peso de la noche (1965)
- Persona non grata (1973)
- Los convidados de piedra (1978)
- El museo de cera (1981)
- La mujer imaginaria (1985)
- El anfitrión (1987)
- El origen del mundo (1996)
- El sueño de la historia (2000)
- El inútil de la familia (2004), about Joaquín Edwards Bello.
- La Casa de Dostoievsky (2008)
Journalism[edit]
Jorge Edwards wrote for several newspapers in Chile and Latin America (La Nación, Buenos Aires) and Europe (Le Monde, Paris; and El País, Madrid). A large portion of his journalistic work has been collected in two books:
- El whisky de los poetas (1997)
- Diálogos en un tejado (2003)
Other works[edit]
He has also written essays and biographies:
- Desde la cola del dragón (1973)
- Adiós, poeta (about Pablo Neruda, 1990)
- Machado de Assís (about the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 2002)
Teaching[edit]
Jorge Edwards taught a course at the University of Chicago during the autumn quarter of 2008. The course was titled My personal history of the boom.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Falleció el escritor chileno Jorge Edwards a los 91 años (in Spanish)
- ^ "Jorge Edwards Biography. Instituto Cervantes in Manchester".
- ^ Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, official website
- ^ "Jorge Edwards ya es español". El País. 12 March 2010.
- ^ Boletín Oficial del Estado
- ^ http://timeschedules.uchicago.edu/view.cfm?dept=SPAN&term=75
External links[edit]
- Jorge Edwards in the Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
- Biography of Jorge Edwards in Escritores.cl
- Biography of Jorge Edwards
- Awards and work
- Interview about El inútil de la familia
- 1931 births
- 2023 deaths
- Edwards family
- People from Santiago
- 20th-century Chilean novelists
- 20th-century Chilean male writers
- Chilean columnists
- Chilean male novelists
- Chilean diplomats
- Members of the Chilean Academy of Language
- Chilean people of Welsh descent
- Premio Cervantes winners
- University of Chile alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- National Prize for Literature (Chile) winners
- Ambassadors of Chile to France
- Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Evópoli politicians
- 21st-century Chilean novelists
- 21st-century Chilean male writers
- 20th-century Chilean short story writers
- Chilean essayists
- Chilean biographers
- 21st-century Chilean short story writers
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