Born in Santiago de chile, Mars 6, 1944.
Chilean writer, poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, living in the US since 1992. He is a corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), a member of PEN Chile, a member of the Academia Universalis Poetarum and of the Academia Tomitana of Constanza. He is also a regular contributor of opinion articles for Le Monde Diplomatique, Chilean edition, Impacto La¬tino, NY, El Desconcierto, Chile, TodoLiteratura, Spain, and Letralia. His poetry has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies in the United States, France and Latin America and partially translated into English, French and Romanian.
As a poet, he has participated in International Festivals and poetry readings in Paris, the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, and Costa Rica, among others.
Awards:
• Award Coroana de Aur Ovidius, Tomis-Constanza 2024.
• Award Mihai Eminescu XIII International Poetry Festival, Craiova, Roumania, 2024
• Honored Poet of the 17th Hispanic/Latino Book Fair Queens, 2023
• Proclamation from the New York City Council for his outstanding achievements in literature, 2023
• Citation from the New York State Assembly for his literary career and for his work to keep Spanish alive in the United States, 2023
• Finalist, International Book Award 2023: category “contemporary poetry”, for the collection hombre de américa/man of the americas, Nueva York Poetry Press 2022, translated by Andrea G. Labinger and Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
• Honorary Mention International Latino Book Award 2024 for hom¬bre de américa/man of the Americas and Confieso que escribo/ I Confess that I Write.
• Proclamation from the Municipality of Turrialba, Costa Rica, as a Distinguished Poet 2023
• Finalist International Latino Book Award 2018: category “best fiction book in translation Spanish to English” for Y todos éramos actores, un siglo de luz y sombra (2016) /And All of Us Were Actors, A Century of Light and Shadow translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
• Poetry Park Award, Rotterdam, 1989 for “Dr. Zamenhofstraat”
International Poetry Festivals (selection)
• Poetry Park Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 1989
• Vasos comunicantes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1999
• Centro Cultural Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris, 2019
• The Americas Poetry Festival, (TAPFNY), NY 2019 2021, 2022
• The Earth is Our Home, India, 2022
• Feria Internacional del Libro, New York City, FILNYC, 2022
• Poetas del Mundo, Chiapas, México, 2022
• Valle del Rio Grande International Poetry Festival, 2022
• IX Festival Internacional de Poesía, (FIPA) Aguacatán, Guatemala, 2022
• Feria Internacional del Libro, NJ, 2022
• New York City Poetry Festival, 2023
• Feria Internacional del libro LACUHE, 2023
• La Sorbona, Paris, 2023
• Festival Internacional de Poesía Turrialba, FIP-Turrialba, Costa Rica, 2023
• Feria Internacional del Libro Hispano/Latino, Queens, NY, 2022 y Keynote Speaker, 2023
• XIII Festival Mondial de Poésie Mihai Eminescu, Craiova, June 2024
Publications
Poetry
• Si lo hubiera sabido… Valparaíso Ediciones. España, Colombia, 2024.
• Y aún queda espacio en mi mochila. Puerto Rico. Editorial LaCriba, 2024.
• POŞTA POEZIEI/El correo de la poesía. Ruma¬nia. Editorial Kult, 2024, translated by Car¬men Bulzan.
• Un poète dans la ville / Un poeta en la ciudad. Paris, Éditions l’Harmattan, 2023, translated by Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
• Invocación de confines/Invocarea limitei. Chile, Inde¬pendent¬ly Poetry, 2024, translated by Carmen Bulzan.
• Un poète dans la ville /un poeta en la ciudad. París, L’Harmattan, 2024, translated by Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
• Desde el fondo del tintero: Dalibá, la brujita del Caribe (París 1982), ExIliadas (Rotterdam 1988). HLCCNY, 2023.
• hombre de américa/man of the americas. Nueva York Poetry Press, NY, 2022, translated by Priscilla Gac-Artigas y Andrea G. Labinger.
• deseos / longings / j’aimerais tant. Ediciones Nue¬vo Espacio, 2020, translated by Andrea G. Labinger, English, and Priscilla Gac-Artigas, French.
Poetry in Anthologies (selection)
• Segunda antología poética de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Nueva York, 2022, Antología poética LACUHE 2022, Boundless 2022, Anthology of the Valle del Rio Grande International Poetry Festival 2022, Multilingual Anthology The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2019, 2021, 2022, Canto Planetario, (Carlos Javier Jarquín, compilator) 2023, Tercera antología poética de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Nueva York, 2023.
Poetry in Magazines (selection)
• Revista Hostosiana, Fundación Neruda, Altazor, Latino Book Review, Taller Igitur, Revista Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (RANLE), Multicultural Echoes Literary Magazine (Universidad de California, Chico), Enclave, Letr