He was awarded the National Literature Prize in 1994 and the Cervantes Prize in 1999. He was the creator of brief tales, novels, essays and memoirs, in addition to a columnist in newspapers around the globe. His works have been translated into quite a few languages, and he has obtained probably the most prestigious distinctions.
The Chilean author Jorge Edwards has died this Friday on the age of 91 in Madrid, in line with info from the Chilean media confirmed by the creator’s son.
Edwards (Santiago de Chile, 1931), one of the essential writers within the Spanish language, was awarded the National Prize for Literature in 1994 and the Cervantes Prize in 1999.
He was the creator of brief tales, novels, essays and memoirs, in addition to a columnist in newspapers around the globe. His novels embrace ‘The weight of the night time’, ‘The stone friends’, ‘The wax museum’, ‘The host’, ‘The origin of the world’, ‘The Dream of History’ and ‘The ineffective of the household’.
His memoirs ‘Persona non grata’ (1973), the primary criticism of the Cuban regime by a Latin American mental, is right this moment a traditional of its type. In the biography ‘Adiós, Poeta’, winner of the 1990 Comillas History, Biography and Memories Award, he painted a private and stunning portrait of the determine of Pablo Neruda.
His works have been translated into quite a few languages, and he has obtained probably the most prestigious awards, each for his literary profession and for his diplomatic profession, all the time dedicated to democracy, freedom and human rights.
After ‘The demise of Montaigne’ (2011), Edwards revealed the primary quantity of his memoirs, ‘The purple circles’ (2013).