National Prize for Literature (Chile)
1 appearances
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Edition 43 (1996) Winner
Miguel Arteche
ミゲル・アルテチェ
Migeru Arucheche
Aliases:
Miguel Salinas Arteche
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1926-06-04 （Nueva Imperial, Cautín Province, Chile）
- Died
- 2012-07-22 （Santiago, Santiago Province, Chile） age 86
- Nationality
- Chilean
- Languages
- Spanish
- Residence History
- Nueva Imperial, Chile → Santiago, Chile → Madrid, Spain → Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, diplomat, professor
- Active Years
- 1947-2012
- Affiliations
- Chilean Embassy in Madrid, Chilean Embassy in Honduras
- Memberships
- Academia Chilena de la Lengua
- Influenced By
- Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Spanish Golden Age poets
- Influenced
- Enrique Lafourcade
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universidad de Chile | — | Faculty of Law | — | — | Chile |
| Complutense University of Madrid | — | Faculty of Literature | — | 1951-1954 | Spain |
Universidad de Chile
Faculty of Law
Country:
Chile
Studied Law but dropped out
Complutense University of Madrid
Faculty of Literature
Period:
1951-1954
Country:
Spain
Studied Literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Premio Nacional de Literatura | — | — | Government of Chile | 受賞 |
Premio Nacional de Literatura
1996
Organization:
Government of Chile
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Destierros y tinieblas
1963 PoetryPoetry collection themed around exile and darkness. One of his most renowned works.
exiledarknesssolitudewater
Bibliography
- La invitación al olvido (1947)
- Oda fúnebre (1948)
- Una nube (1949)
- El sur dormido (1950)
- Cantata del desterrado (1951)
- Solitario, mira hacia la ausencia (1953)
- Otro continente (1957)
- Quince poemas (1961)
- Destierros y tinieblas (1963)
- De la ausencia a la noche (1965)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- metrical poetrytraditional metricsformal verse
- Recurring Motifs
- waterexilesolitudenight
Legacy
Key figure in Chile's 1950 literary generation. Taught traditional metrical poetry, awarded Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1996. Faced publishing issues under Pinochet regime.
Archives
- Memoria Chilena
Quotes
-
I woke up at midnight the whole house set sail. In the early morning, there was rain with rain.
Source: Destierros y Tinieblas (1963)
Trivia
- In 1972, he legally reversed his maternal and paternal surnames to become Miguel Arteche.