Ariel Dorfman
Autore di Death and the Maiden
Sull'Autore
Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean citizen. A supporter of Salvador Allende, he was forced into exile and has lived in the United States for many years. Since writing his legendary essay, "How to Read Donald Duck", Dorfman has built up an impressive body of work that has mostra altro translated into more than thirty languages. Besides poetry, essays and novels--"Hard Rain" (Readers International, 1990), winner of the Sudamericana Award; "Widows" (Pluto Press, 1983); "The Last Song of Manuel Sendero" (Viking, 1987); "Mascara" (Viking, 1988); "Konfidenz" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995)--he has written plays, including "Death and the Maiden", and produced in ninety countries. He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theatre Awards. With his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for "Prisoners of Time" in 1996. A professor at Duke University, Dorfman lives in Durham, North Carolina. (Publisher Provided) Ariel Dorfman, Dorfman is a Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies and has a Licenciatura in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1965. He has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam. Dorfman has written essays that include "How to Read Donald Duck" (coll. With Armand Mattlelart, 1971), "The Empire's Old Clothes" (1983) and "Someone Writes to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction" (1991). He has also written a collection of poetry titled "Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance" (1988) and a collection of stories titled "My House Is One Fire." His novels include "Widows" (1983), "The Last Song of Manuel Sendero" (1986), "Mascara" (1988), "Hard Rain" (1990), "Konfidenz" (1995), and "The Nanny and the Iceburg" (1999). The play "Widows" won a New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center and "Reader" won the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center. "Death and the Maiden" also won many awards and was made into a Roman Polanski film and "Mascara" (with son Rodrigo Dorfman) premiered in Bonn in 1998. He created a collection of his plays, "The Resistance Trilogy," which includes "Death and the Maiden," "Reader," and "Widows." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Ariel Dorfman
The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds (1983) 150 copie
Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup (Radical History) (2003) 75 copie
The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (Poets, Penguin) (1988) 17 copie
Maskara 2 copie
Trial of Henry Kissinger 2 copie
Speak Truth to Power 2 copie
Sin ir más lejos 1 copia
Blatant Artifice No. 2/3 (An Anthology of Short Fiction by Visiting Writers, 1985-87, Volume III) (1988) 1 copia
The Empire's Old Clothes 1 copia
The Gospel according to García 1 copia
Travesía. Cuentos 1 copia
A punto de nacer 1999 1 copia
Opere correlate
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life (2007) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney (2018) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater: An Anthology of Contemporary Drama from Kosovo (2018) — Note — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Dorfman, Ariel
- Data di nascita
- 1942-05-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Argentina
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Luogo di residenza
- Chile
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Washington, D.C., USA - Istruzione
- University of Chile
University of California Berkeley - Attività lavorative
- Writer
professor
Politician - Relazioni
- Dorfman, Joaquin (son)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Kennedy Center Theater Award (twice)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 72
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 2,383
- Popolarità
- #10,773
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 36
- ISBN
- 252
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 3