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| birth_name = Diamela Eltit González
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| birth_place = [[Santiago]], Chile
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| alma_mater = [[Universidad Católica de Chile]], [[University of Chile]]
| alma_mater = [[Universidad Católica de Chile]], [[University of Chile]]
| spouse = Jorge Arrate
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| awards = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], 1985<br>[[National Prize for Literature (Chile)]], 2018
| awards = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], 1985<br>[[National Prize for Literature (Chile)]], 2018<br>[[Carlos Fuentes Prize]], 2020<br>[[FIL Award]], 2021
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'''Diamela Eltit''' (born 1947, [[Santiago de Chile]]) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the [[National Prize for Literature (Chile)|National Prize for Literature]].
'''Diamela Eltit''' ([[Santiago de Chile]], 1947<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.planetadelibros.cl/autor/diamela-eltit/000028377|title=Editorial Planeta (Diamela Eltit's Publishing House)|website=www.planetadelibros.cl|access-date=2023-01-17}}</ref>) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the [[National Prize for Literature (Chile)|National Prize for Literature]].


== Life ==
== Life ==
Between 1966 and 1976, she graduated in Spanish studies at the [[Universidad Católica de Chile]] and followed graduate studies in Literature at the [[Universidad de Chile]] in Santiago.
Diamela Eltit graduated from college from [[Universidad Católica de Chile]] and pursued graduate studies in Literature at the [[Universidad de Chile]] in Santiago.
In 1977, she began a career as Spanish and literature teacher at high school level in several public schools in Santiago, such as the [[Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera|Instituto Nacional]] and the [[:es:Liceo Carmela Carvajal de Prat|Liceo Carmela Carvajal.]] In 1984, she started teaching at universities in Chile, where she is currently professor at the ''[[Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana]]'' and abroad.
In 1977, she began a teaching career in public high schools in Santiago, including [[Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera|Instituto Nacional]] and [[:es:Liceo Carmela Carvajal de Prat|Liceo Carmela Carvajal.]] In 1984, she started teaching at universities in Chile, where she is currently professor at the ''[[Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana]]'' and abroad.


During the last thirty years, Eltit has lectured and participated in conferences, seminars and literature events throughout the world, in Europe, Africa, North and Latin America. She has been several times visiting professor at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]], and also at [[Johns Hopkins University]], Stanford University, [[Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University in Saint Louis]], [[University of Pittsburgh]], [[University of Virginia]] and, since 2007, [[New York University]], where she holds a teaching appointment as Distinguished Global Visiting Professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish.<ref name=nyu>{{Cite web|url=http://as.nyu.edu/faculty/diamela-eltit.html|title=Diamela Eltit|website=as.nyu.edu|access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> In the academic year 2014-2015 Eltit was invited by Cambridge University, U.K., to the Simon Bolivar Chair at the Center of Latin American Studies. Since 2014 Diamela Eltit's personal and literary archives are deposited at the University of Princeton. Through her career several hundreds of Latin American young writers have participated as students at her highly appreciated literature workshops.
She has held visiting professorships at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]], [[Johns Hopkins University]], Stanford University, [[Washington University in St. Louis]], and [[University of Pittsburgh]], [[University of Virginia]]. Since 2007, [[New York University]], she has been a distinguished global visiting professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish.<ref name=nyu>{{Cite web|url=http://as.nyu.edu/faculty/diamela-eltit.html|title=Diamela Eltit|website=as.nyu.edu|access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> Eltit was the 2014–2015 Simon Bolivar Chair at the Center of Latin American Studies at Cambridge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Diamela Eltit {{!}} Hammer Museum|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/diamela-eltit|access-date=2020-09-07|website=hammer.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref>


In 2013 Princeton University acquired her archive, which includes manuscripts, letters, and photographs.<ref name=":0" />
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In 1973, after the military coup, Eltit decided to stay in Chile.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/diamela-eltit/|title=Diamela Eltit by Julio Ortega - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> During this period she started publishing her first manuscripts. When democracy returned in 1990 she was cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in [[Mexico]] until 1994. During several periods she has been representative of the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Council, where policies with regard to book publishing and reading practices are defined and promoted. She has written for many journals and newspaper. Most recently she collaborated for several year in ''The Clinic'' and now she writes opinions por ''El Desconcierto'', both in Santiago.


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In 1973, after the military coup in Chile,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/diamela-eltit/|title=Diamela Eltit by Julio Ortega - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|date=January 2001 |access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> she started publishing her writings. When democracy returned in 1990 she became a cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in [[Mexico]] until 1994. She was a representative of the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Council. She writes opinions por ''El Desconcierto'', both in Santiago.
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In 1979, Eltit created together with the poet [[Raúl Zurita]], the visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells the ''Colectivo de Acciones de Arte'' (CADA), a vanguard group part of the so-called ''[[Escena de Avanzada]]''. CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under the [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] dictatorship.


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In 1979, Eltit created together with the poet [[Raúl Zurita]], the visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells the ''Colectivo de Acciones de Arte'' (CADA), a vanguard group part of the so-called ''[[Escena de Avanzada]]''. CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under the [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] dictatorship.<ref name=":0" />
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In 1980, Eltit published her first book, ''Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento'', a volume of essays. Her first novel, ''Lumpérica,'' appeared in 1983<ref name=nyu/> in Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, a small editorial house from Santiago. The text dedicated to Eltit in the internet cultural portal ''Memoria Chilena'', explains that 1980 decade was specially complicated for the Chilean intellectuals that had to elaborate strategies to publish and circulate their work in a cultural environment where censorship existed. In this context, women publications were a significant contribution because they generated renewed spaces of thinking on political issues and subjects as [[sexuality]], [[authoritarianism]], domestic life and gender identity. Eltit was part of this new generation and not only articulated an original literary project —a theoretical, esthetic, social and political proposal with a new reading space as perspective—, but also developed a visual work as a member of CADA".


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In 1980, Eltit published her first book, ''Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento'', a volume of essays. Her first novel, ''Lumpérica,'' appeared in 1983<ref name="nyu" /> in Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, a small editorial from Santiago. The text dedicated to Eltit in the internet cultural portal ''Memoria Chilena'', explains that 1980s was complicated for the Chilean intellectuals that had to elaborate strategies to publish and circulate their work in a cultural environment where censorship existed. In this context, women publications were a significant contribution because they generated renewed spaces of thinking on political issues and subjects as [[sexuality]], [[authoritarianism]], domestic life and gender identity. Eltit was part of this new generation and not only articulated an original literary project —a theoretical, esthetic, social and political proposal with a new reading space as perspective—, but also developed a visual work as a member of CADA".
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Since then, Diamela Eltit has continued publishing novels and essays until today. Several of her novels have been presented on the stage by different theater groups in several countries. Also several have been published in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and in other languages as English, French, Finnish, Greek, Italian and, in the near future, Portuguese. In 2012 the Spanish editorial house Periférica reached an agreement with Diamela Eltit to republish all her novels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.editorialperiferica.com/index.php?s=autores&aut=66|title=Editorial Periférica|last=www.inmedia-estudio.com|website=www.editorialperiferica.com|language=es-es|access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref>


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Several of Eltit’s novels have been staged by different theater groups and translated into other languages. In 2012 the Spanish editorial house Periférica reached an agreement with Diamela Eltit to republish all her novels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.editorialperiferica.com/index.php?s=autores&aut=66|title=Editorial Periférica|last=www.inmedia-estudio.com|website=www.editorialperiferica.com|language=es-es|access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref>
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Three of Eltit novels were chosen as part of the list selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics for the Colombian journal ''Semana'' of the 100 best novels in Spanish language in the last 25 years: ''Lumpérica'' (Nº58), ''El cuarto mundo'' (Nº67) y ''Los vigilantes'' (Nº100). In 2016 the journal ''Babelia'', in Spain, selected one of Eltit's novels as one of the best 25 of century XXI. Eltit has been mentioned for the ''[[Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile]]'', but she has rejected self-promotion and the system of candidates presentation.


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Three of Eltit novels were chosen as part of the list selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics for the Colombian journal ''Semana'' of the 100 best novels in Spanish language in the last 25 years: ''Lumpérica'' (Nº58), ''El cuarto mundo'' (Nº67) y ''Los vigilantes'' (Nº100). In 2016 the journal ''Babelia'', in Spain, selected one of Eltit's novels as one of the best 25 of century XXI.
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Eltit's work has been the object of many studies, in Spanish and other languages. ''[[Casa de las Américas]]'', in La Habana, dedicated to Eltit her ''Semana de Autor'' in 2002, and in 2006, the ''[[Universidad Católica de Chile]]'' organized the ''Coloquio Internacional de Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje a Diamela Eltit'', which resulted in the book ''Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales'' (Iberoamericana, 2009)


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Eltit's work has been the object of many studies. ''[[Casa de las Américas]]'', in La Habana, dedicated to Eltit her ''Semana de Autor'' in 2002, and in 2006, the ''[[Universidad Católica de Chile]]'' organized the ''Coloquio Internacional de Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje a Diamela Eltit'', which resulted in the book ''Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales'' (Iberoamericana, 2009)
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Eltit has two daughters and a son. She is married to [[Jorge Arrate]], lawyer and economist, former President of the Socialist Party, that in 2009 was presidential candidate representing a coalition between the Communist Party and socialist, humanist and Christian left groups.


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Eltit has two daughters and a son. She is married to [[Jorge Arrate]], lawyer and economist. Her husband is the former president of the Socialist Party. In 2009 he was a presidential candidate representing a coalition between the Communist Party and socialist, humanist and Christian left groups.
==Prizes and fellowships==
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* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], 1985
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* USA Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1988, (to research on [[Gabriela Mistral]], [[María Luisa Bombal]] and [[Marta Brunet]])
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* Prize José Nuez Martín, 1995 por ''Los vigilantes''
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* Nominated to [[Altazor Award]] 2001 in the category of literary essay with ''Emergencias. Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política''
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* [[Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso|Prize ''Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso'']] 2010<sup>12</sup>
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* Nominated to [[Altazor Award]] 2011 in the novels category with ''Impuesto a la carne''
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* Finalist in the [[Premio Rómulo Gallegos|Prize Rómulo Gallegos]] 2011 with ''Impuesto a la carne''<sup>13</sup>
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*Finalist for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] 2012 (nominated by [[Nathalie Handal]])
*
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* [[Altazor Award]] 2014 in the fiction category for ''Fuerzas especiales''
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* [[National Prize for Literature (Chile)]], 2018


==Works==
==Works==
* ''Lumpérica'', novela (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1983); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena; translated into English by Ronald Christ under the title ''E. Luminata'' (Lumen Books, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0930829407}})
* ''Lumpérica'', Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1983); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena; translated into English by Ronald Christ under the title ''E. Luminata'' (Lumen Books, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0930829407}})
* ''Por la patria'', novela (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1986); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Por la patria'', Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1986); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''El cuarto mundo'', novela (Planeta, Santiago, 1988); translated into English by Dick Gerdes under the title ''The Fourth World'' (University of Nebraska Press, 1995, {{ISBN|9780803267237}})
* ''El cuarto mundo'', Novel (Planeta, Santiago, 1988); translated into English by Dick Gerdes under the title ''The Fourth World'' (University of Nebraska Press, 1995, {{ISBN|9780803267237}})
* ''El padre mío'', libro de testimonios (Francisco Zegers, editor, Santiago, 1989); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''El padre mío'', libro de testimonios (Francisco Zegers, editor, Santiago, 1989); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Vaca sagrada'', novela (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1991)
* ''Vaca sagrada'', Novel (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1991); translated into English by Amanda Hopkinson under the title ''Sacred Cow'' (Serpent's Tail, 1994, {{ISBN|9781852422875}})
* ''Elena Caffarena: El derecho a voz, el derecho a voto", ensayo (Casa de Chile en México, México, 1993)
* ''Elena Caffarena: El derecho a voz, el derecho a voto", Essay (Casa de Chile en México, México, 1993)
* ''El infarto del alma'', libro documental, con fotografías de Paz (Errázuriz, 1994)
* ''El infarto del alma'', libro documental, con fotografías de Paz Errázuriz (1994)
* ''Los vigilantes'', novela (Sudamericana, Santiago, 1994); translated into English by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ under the title ''Custody of the Eyes'' (Lumen Books, 2005, {{ISBN|9780930829568}}, {{OCLC|63789755}})
* ''Los vigilantes'', novela (Sudamericana, Santiago, 1994); translated into English by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ under the title ''Custody of the Eyes'' (Lumen Books, 2005, {{ISBN|9780930829568}}, {{OCLC|63789755}})
* ''Crónica del sufragio femenino en Chile'', ensayo, Servicio Nacional de la Mujer SERNAM, Santiago, 1994; descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Crónica del sufragio femenino en Chile'', Essay, Servicio Nacional de la Mujer SERNAM, Santiago, 1994; descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Los trabajadores de la muerte'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago, 1998)
* ''Los trabajadores de la muerte'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 1998)
* ''Emergencias'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, ensayos (Planeta, Santiago, 2000)
* ''Emergencias'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Planeta, Santiago, 2000)
* ''Mano de obra'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2002); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Mano de obra'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2002); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
* ''Puño y letra'', sobre [[Carlos Prats]] (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2005). Aunque publicado por la editorial como novela, Eltit reconoce que no lo es: "Lo que sí le puedo decir taxativamente es que no es una novela, no lo es, más allá de que la editorial la incluya bajo ese prisma".<sup>14</sup>
* ''Puño y letra'', sobre [[Carlos Prats]] (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2005). Aunque publicado por la editorial como novela, Eltit reconoce que no lo es: "Lo que sí le puedo decir taxativamente es que no es una novela, no lo es, más allá de que la editorial la incluya bajo ese prisma".<sup>14</sup>
* ''Jamás el fuego nunca'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2007)
* ''Jamás el fuego nunca'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2007)
* ''Signos vitales'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, ensayos ([[Ediciones UDP]], Santiago, 2007)
* ''Signos vitales'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays ([[Ediciones UDP]], Santiago, 2007)
* ''Colonizadas, relato en la antología Excesos del cuerpo'', Ficciones de contagio y enfermedad en América Latina (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2009)
* ''Colonizadas, relato en la antología Excesos del cuerpo'', Ficciones de contagio y enfermedad en América Latina (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2009)
* ''Impuesto a la carne'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago / Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2010)
* ''Impuesto a la carne'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago / Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2010)
* ''Antología personal'', editorial de la [[Universidad de Talca]] (2012)
* ''Antología personal'', Anthology (Editorial de la [[Universidad de Talca]], 2012)
* ''Fuerzas especiales'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2013)
* ''Fuerzas especiales'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2013)
* ''Réplicas'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, ensayos (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2016)
* ''Réplicas'', Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2016)
* ''Dos guiones'', teatro (Sangría Editora, Santiago, 2017). Incluye los guiones "La invitación, el instructivo" (2006, Mediometraje dirigido por Lotty Rosenfeld e incluido en su instalación "Cuenta regresiva") y "¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?" (2001)
* ''Dos guiones'', Plays (Sangría Editora, Santiago, 2017). Incluye los guiones "La invitación, el instructivo" (2006, Mediometraje dirigido por [[Lotty Rosenfeld]] e incluido en su instalación "Cuenta regresiva") y "¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?" (2001)
* ''Sumar'', novela (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2018)
* ''Sumar'', Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2018)
* ''El ojo en la mira'', Essay/Literary autobiography (Ampersand, Argentina, 2021)


==Some bibliography==
==Selected bibliography==
* ''Página de Eltit en Memoria Chilena, con fotos, cronología y artículos y libros que se pueden descargar gratuita y legalmente''
* ''Página de Eltit en Memoria Chilena, con fotos, cronología y artículos y libros que se pueden descargar gratuita y legalmente''
* ''Eltit en Letras.s5''
* ''Eltit en Letras.s5''
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* ''Bernardita Llanos Mardones. El sujeto explosionado: Eltit y la geografía del discurso del padre, ensayo sobre El padre mío; Literatura y lingüística Nº10, 1997; acceso 23.01.2012''
* ''Bernardita Llanos Mardones. El sujeto explosionado: Eltit y la geografía del discurso del padre, ensayo sobre El padre mío; Literatura y lingüística Nº10, 1997; acceso 23.01.2012''
* ''Tres novelas (Los vigilantes, El cuarto mundo y Mano de obra) en Google book''
* ''Tres novelas (Los vigilantes, El cuarto mundo y Mano de obra) en Google book''

==Awards and accolades==
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* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], 1985
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* USA Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1988, (to research on [[Gabriela Mistral]], [[María Luisa Bombal]] and [[Marta Brunet]])
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* Prize José Nuez Martín, 1995 por ''Los vigilantes''
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* Nominated to [[Altazor Award]] 2001 in the category of literary essay with ''Emergencias. Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política''
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* [[:es:Premio José Donoso|Premio José Donoso]] 2010<sup>12</sup>
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* Nominated to [[Altazor Award]] 2011 in the novels category with ''Impuesto a la carne''
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* Finalist in the [[Premio Rómulo Gallegos|Prize Rómulo Gallegos]] 2011 with ''Impuesto a la carne''<sup>13</sup>
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* Finalist for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] 2012 (nominated by [[Nathalie Handal]])
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* [[Altazor Award]] 2014 in the fiction category for ''Fuerzas especiales''
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* [[National Prize for Literature (Chile)]], 2018
* [[Carlos Fuentes Prize]], 2020
* [[FIL Award]], 2021


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
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[[Category:Chilean women novelists]]
[[Category:Chilean people of Palestinian descent]]
[[Category:Chilean people of Palestinian descent]]
[[Category:Chilean women short story writers]]
[[Category:Chilean women short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Chilean women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Chilean women writers]]
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[[Category:20th-century Chilean novelists]]
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[[Category:Cultural attachés]]
[[Category:Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Santiago, Chile]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty]]
[[Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty]]
[[Category:Stanford University faculty]]
[[Category:Washington University in St. Louis faculty]]

Latest revision as of 10:51, 16 November 2024

Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit, 2018
Diamela Eltit, 2018
BornDiamela Eltit González
1947
Santiago, Chile
OccupationPoet
Professor
Alma materUniversidad Católica de Chile, University of Chile
GenreNovella, essay
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, 1985
National Prize for Literature (Chile), 2018
Carlos Fuentes Prize, 2020
FIL Award, 2021
SpouseJorge Arrate

Diamela Eltit (Santiago de Chile, 1947[1]) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.

Life

[edit]

Diamela Eltit graduated from college from Universidad Católica de Chile and pursued graduate studies in Literature at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. In 1977, she began a teaching career in public high schools in Santiago, including Instituto Nacional and Liceo Carmela Carvajal. In 1984, she started teaching at universities in Chile, where she is currently professor at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana and abroad.

She has held visiting professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis, and University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia. Since 2007, New York University, she has been a distinguished global visiting professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish.[2] Eltit was the 2014–2015 Simon Bolivar Chair at the Center of Latin American Studies at Cambridge.[3]

In 2013 Princeton University acquired her archive, which includes manuscripts, letters, and photographs.[3]

In 1973, after the military coup in Chile,[4] she started publishing her writings. When democracy returned in 1990 she became a cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in Mexico until 1994. She was a representative of the Council of Chilean Universities to the Book National Council. She writes opinions por El Desconcierto, both in Santiago.

In 1979, Eltit created together with the poet Raúl Zurita, the visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo and the sociologist Fernando Balcells the Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA), a vanguard group part of the so-called Escena de Avanzada. CADA struggled for reformulating artistic circuits under the Pinochet dictatorship.[3]

In 1980, Eltit published her first book, Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento, a volume of essays. Her first novel, Lumpérica, appeared in 1983[2] in Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, a small editorial from Santiago. The text dedicated to Eltit in the internet cultural portal Memoria Chilena, explains that 1980s was complicated for the Chilean intellectuals that had to elaborate strategies to publish and circulate their work in a cultural environment where censorship existed. In this context, women publications were a significant contribution because they generated renewed spaces of thinking on political issues and subjects as sexuality, authoritarianism, domestic life and gender identity. Eltit was part of this new generation and not only articulated an original literary project —a theoretical, esthetic, social and political proposal with a new reading space as perspective—, but also developed a visual work as a member of CADA".

Several of Eltit’s novels have been staged by different theater groups and translated into other languages. In 2012 the Spanish editorial house Periférica reached an agreement with Diamela Eltit to republish all her novels.[5]

Three of Eltit novels were chosen as part of the list selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics for the Colombian journal Semana of the 100 best novels in Spanish language in the last 25 years: Lumpérica (Nº58), El cuarto mundo (Nº67) y Los vigilantes (Nº100). In 2016 the journal Babelia, in Spain, selected one of Eltit's novels as one of the best 25 of century XXI.

Eltit's work has been the object of many studies. Casa de las Américas, in La Habana, dedicated to Eltit her Semana de Autor in 2002, and in 2006, the Universidad Católica de Chile organized the Coloquio Internacional de Escritores y Críticos: Homenaje a Diamela Eltit, which resulted in the book Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales (Iberoamericana, 2009)

Eltit has two daughters and a son. She is married to Jorge Arrate, lawyer and economist. Her husband is the former president of the Socialist Party. In 2009 he was a presidential candidate representing a coalition between the Communist Party and socialist, humanist and Christian left groups.

Works

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  • Lumpérica, Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1983); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena; translated into English by Ronald Christ under the title E. Luminata (Lumen Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0930829407)
  • Por la patria, Novel (Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco, Santiago, 1986); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • El cuarto mundo, Novel (Planeta, Santiago, 1988); translated into English by Dick Gerdes under the title The Fourth World (University of Nebraska Press, 1995, ISBN 9780803267237)
  • El padre mío, libro de testimonios (Francisco Zegers, editor, Santiago, 1989); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Vaca sagrada, Novel (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1991); translated into English by Amanda Hopkinson under the title Sacred Cow (Serpent's Tail, 1994, ISBN 9781852422875)
  • Elena Caffarena: El derecho a voz, el derecho a voto", Essay (Casa de Chile en México, México, 1993)
  • El infarto del alma, libro documental, con fotografías de Paz Errázuriz (1994)
  • Los vigilantes, novela (Sudamericana, Santiago, 1994); translated into English by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ under the title Custody of the Eyes (Lumen Books, 2005, ISBN 9780930829568, OCLC 63789755)
  • Crónica del sufragio femenino en Chile, Essay, Servicio Nacional de la Mujer SERNAM, Santiago, 1994; descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Los trabajadores de la muerte, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 1998)
  • Emergencias, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Planeta, Santiago, 2000)
  • Mano de obra, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2002); descargable desde el portal Memoria Chilena
  • Puño y letra, sobre Carlos Prats (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2005). Aunque publicado por la editorial como novela, Eltit reconoce que no lo es: "Lo que sí le puedo decir taxativamente es que no es una novela, no lo es, más allá de que la editorial la incluya bajo ese prisma".14
  • Jamás el fuego nunca, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2007)
  • Signos vitales, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Ediciones UDP, Santiago, 2007)
  • Colonizadas, relato en la antología Excesos del cuerpo, Ficciones de contagio y enfermedad en América Latina (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2009)
  • Impuesto a la carne, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago / Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2010)
  • Antología personal, Anthology (Editorial de la Universidad de Talca, 2012)
  • Fuerzas especiales, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2013)
  • Réplicas, Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, Essays (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2016)
  • Dos guiones, Plays (Sangría Editora, Santiago, 2017). Incluye los guiones "La invitación, el instructivo" (2006, Mediometraje dirigido por Lotty Rosenfeld e incluido en su instalación "Cuenta regresiva") y "¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?" (2001)
  • Sumar, Novel (Seix Barral, Santiago, 2018)
  • El ojo en la mira, Essay/Literary autobiography (Ampersand, Argentina, 2021)

Selected bibliography

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  • Página de Eltit en Memoria Chilena, con fotos, cronología y artículos y libros que se pueden descargar gratuita y legalmente
  • Eltit en Letras.s5
  • Eltit en Editorial Planeta Chile
  • Eltit lee el relato Colonizadas, UNAM, audio 24:51; acceso 23.01.2012
  • “La unión madre-hija es la pareja más débil de la cultura”, entrevista a Eltit sobre la novela Impuesto a la carne; portal de la editorial & librería Eterna Cadencia, 02.05.2011; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Ezequiel Alemián. Una escritura política y sin anestesia para retratar a América Latina, entrevista con motivo de la publicación de Impuesto a la carne; Clarín, 13.12.2010; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Leonidas Morales. Género y Hegemonía en 'El infarto del alma'
  • Cortometraje inspirado en El infarto del alma
  • Bernardita Llanos Mardones. El sujeto explosionado: Eltit y la geografía del discurso del padre, ensayo sobre El padre mío; Literatura y lingüística Nº10, 1997; acceso 23.01.2012
  • Tres novelas (Los vigilantes, El cuarto mundo y Mano de obra) en Google book

Awards and accolades

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References

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  1. ^ "Editorial Planeta (Diamela Eltit's Publishing House)". www.planetadelibros.cl. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  2. ^ a b "Diamela Eltit". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  3. ^ a b c "Diamela Eltit | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  4. ^ "Diamela Eltit by Julio Ortega - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. January 2001. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  5. ^ www.inmedia-estudio.com. "Editorial Periférica". www.editorialperiferica.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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