Name Jorge Edwards | Role Novelist | |
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Education Princeton University (1959) Books Persona Non Grata, El inutil de la familia Awards Miguel de Cervantes Prize, National Prize for Literature Similar People Jose Donoso, Carlos Pezoa Veliz, Marcos Aguinis, P D James | ||
Miami Book Fair International Author Shorts: Jorge Edwards
Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.
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- Miami Book Fair International Author Shorts Jorge Edwards
- Jorge edwards sobre sus memorias tengo una liberacion de la autocensura
- Life and career
- Awards and honors
- Teaching
- References
Jorge edwards sobre sus memorias tengo una liberacion de la autocensura
Life and career
Jorge Edwards is a Chilean novelist and journalist. Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile.
During the presidency of Salvador Allende, Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in Havana, Cuba, but only three months later, the government of Fidel Castro declared him persona non grata. From this episode he wrote, perhaps, his most famous work, Persona non grata (1971).
In June 1994, Edwards accepted the post of Ambassador for Chile before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has its headquarters in Paris, a city where Edwards resided for many years.[2] Edwards currently lives in Santiago de Chile.
In 2008 his novel La Casa de Dostoievsky won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, worth $200,000.
In 2010 Edwards was granted Spanish citizenship by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Awards and honors
Teaching
Jorge Edwards taught a course at the University of Chicago during the autumn quarter of 2008. The course was entitled My personal history of the boom.[3]