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Óscar Hahn

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Óscar Hahn

Aliases: Óscar Arturo Hahn Garcés

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1938-07-05 (Iquique)
Nationality
Chile
Languages
Spanish
Residence History
Iquique, Chile → Rancagua, Chile → Arica, Chile → Maryland, United States → Iowa, United States → Chile

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, educator
Active Years
1961-2024
Affiliations
University of Chile, University of Iowa, Chilean Academy of Language
Memberships
Chilean Academy of Language
Nominations
Finalista del Premio Altazor de Poesía (2004), Finalista del Premio Altazor de Poesía (2009)

Education

University of Chile
Literature
Degree: BA
Country: Chile
Curriculum in the Teaching of Literature
University of Iowa
Degree: MA
Year of Graduation: 1972
Country: United States
International Writers' Program member
University of Maryland
Degree: PhD
Country: United States
College Park

Awards

Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award
2011
Category:
Organization: Fundación Neruda
Result: 受賞
National Prize for Literature (Chile)
2012
Organization: Government of Chile
Result: 受賞
Premio Altazor de Poesía
2003
Category:
Result: 受賞
Premio de Poesía Fundación Loewe
2014
Organization: Loewe Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

This Black Rose

1961 Poetry

Early poetry collection.

lovedeath

Love's Disease

1981 Poetry

The only poetry book banned during the dictatorship.

lovepolitics

The Supreme Loneliness

2012 Poetry

Work around the time of National Literature Prize.

loneliness

Bibliography

  • This Black Rose, 1961
  • Poetic Sum, 1965
  • Final Water, 1967
  • Art of Dying, 1977
  • Love's Disease, 1981
  • Nuclear Images, 1983
  • Text on Text, 1984
  • Flower of the Enamored, 1987
  • Stars Fixed on a White Sky, 1988
  • Treaty of Sorceries, 1992
  • Stolen Verses, 1995
  • Virtual Anthology, 1996
  • Retroactive Anthology, 1998
  • Love Poems, 2001
  • Without Account, 2005
  • In the Blink of an Eye, 2006
  • Poetic Work, 2006
  • Penalty of Life, 2008
  • Ashes in Love, 2009
  • The First Darkness, 2011
  • The Supreme Loneliness, 2012
  • The Communicating Mirrors, 2015

Style & Themes

Recurring Motifs
lovedeathloneliness

Legacy

One of Chile's leading contemporary poets, winner of the National Literature Prize.

Quotes

  • September 11 is a difficult date for me to forget, not only on account of the things that happened in the country at large but also because they took me prisoner...
    Source: Interview

Trivia

  • Lost his father at age 4.
  • Detained during the 1973 coup but survived by chance.
  • Love's Disease was the only poetry book banned during the Pinochet dictatorship.
  • Member of the Chilean Academy of Language.