ולדימירו אריאל דורפמן

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (b.1942), author, scholar and human rights activist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The family moved to United States when Dorfman was an infant, and then in 1954 settled in Santiago, Chile. He studied at the University of California at Berkley from 1968 to 1969. After his return to Chile, Dorfman served as an adviser on cultural affairs to the Chilean President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. Following the military coup of 1973, he left Chile and lived in Paris, Amsterdam, and Washington. After 1985 he became a Professor of Literature and Professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC. Since the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990, he split his activities between Durham and Santiago. His works include El absurdo entre cuatro paredes: el teatro de Harold Pinter (1968), How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (English ed. 1975), La Rebelion de los conejos mágicos (1986), Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (English ed. 1988), La muerte y la donnella (1991), Rumbo al Sur, deseando el Norte (1998), Más allá del miedo: El largo adiós un Pinochet (2002), Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark (2004), Desert Memoirs: Travels through Northern Chile (2004), and Food on Dreams: Confessions from a Stubborn Exile (2011).