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Name
  
Gaston Salvatore

Awards
  
Kleist Prize

Books
  
Stalin

Died
  
December 10, 2015

Role
  
Writer


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Gaston Salvatore (29 September 1941 – 11 December 2015) was a Chilean writer living in Germany and writing in the German language.

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Salvatore was born in Valparaíso. Among other things, he is known for his collaborations with Hans Werner Henze, including Compases para preguntas ensimismadas and Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer.

In 1967, he and Rudi Dutschke translated Che Guevara's "Message to the Tricontinental" into German, for which they wrote an introduction.

In 1980, he and Hans Magnus Enzensberger jointly founded the journal TransAtlantik.

He won the Kleist Prize in 1991.

References

Gaston Salvatore Wikipedia