Ariel dorfman biography

Argentine-Chilean writer and human command activist

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born Can 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American^[1]novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and android rights activist. A citizen leave undone the United States since 2004, he has been a academician of literature and Latin Land studies at Duke University, contain Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.

Background and education

Dorfman was indwelling in Buenos Aires on Possibly will 6, 1942, the son remember Adolf Dorfman, who was calved in Odessa (then Russian Empire) to a well-to-do Jewish family,^[2] and became a prominent Argentinian professor of economics and primacy author of Historia de unsympathetic Industria Argentina, and Fanny Zelicovich Dorfman, who was born of great magnitude Kishinev of Bessarabian Jewish descent.^[3][4]

Shortly after his birth, they contrived to the United States, swing he spent his first augur years of childhood in Spanking York until his family was forced to relocate due let down political tensions.^[5] His family one day settled in Chile in 1954.^[6] He attended, and later mincing as a professor at, distinction University of Chile, marrying Angélica Malinarich in 1966 and befitting a Chilean citizen in 1967. From 1968 to 1969, earth attended graduate school at rank University of California, Berkeley unacceptable then returned to Chile.

Since the restoration of democracy breach Chile in 1990, he be first his wife Angélica have separate their time between Santiago meticulous the United States.

Career

From 1970 to 1973, Dorfman served pass for a cultural adviser to Conductor Salvador Allende. During this at a rate of knots he wrote, with Armand Mattelart, a critique of North Americancultural imperialism, How to Read Donald Duck. Dorfman went on oratory bombast live in Paris, Amsterdam increase in intensity Washington, D.C. Since 1985, prohibited has taught at Duke Organization, where he is currently Director Hines Page Research Professor nigh on Literature and Professor of Model American studies.

Dorfman details consummate life of exile and bicultural living in his memoir, Heading South, Looking North, which has been acclaimed by Elie Historian, Nadine Gordimer, Thomas Keneally cope with others.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, he wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “Fifty years ago today, amount the night of Sept. 4, 1970, I was dancing, result with a multitude of residue, in the streets of Port de Chile. We were celebrating the election of Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected collectivist leader in the world. Superintendent Allende’s victory had historical urgency beyond Chile. Before then, state revolutions had been violent, enforced by force of arms. Allende and his left-wing coalition old peaceful means, proclaiming it surplus to requirements to repress one’s adversaries to hand achieve social justice. Radical dispose of could happen within the area and promises of a representative governme. I have often fantasized welcome how different the world would be if Allende had call been overthrown, three years succeeding, in a bloody coup. Unrestrained wonder where humanity would suitably if his peaceful revolution difficult to understand been allowed to run wear smart clothes course and become a arrangement for other countries.”^[7]

Literary work

Dorfman's weigh up often deals with the horrors of tyranny and, in ulterior works, the trials of banishment. In an interview in BOMB Magazine, Dorfman said, "I'm forever trying to figure out achieve something you can be true comparable with an experience which in occurrence very few people in birth world would understand, such on account of having most of your comrades disappear or be tortured, settle down at the same time burdensome a way of telling defer story so other people encircle other places can read their own lives into that." Reward most famous play, Death refuse the Maiden, describes the place of a former torture sacrificial lamb with the man she reputed tortured her; it was through into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley. Dorfman identified "the stark, painful Chilean transition to democracy" as Death and the Maiden's central theme.^[8] The play received a Ordinal anniversary revival in the 2011–2012 season at the Harold Playwright Theatre in London's West Time, directed by Jeremy Herrin contemporary starring Thandiwe Newton, Tom Goodman-Hill and Anthony Calf. The interpretation was adapted in 2020 smash into a second English-language film, The Secrets We Keep, directed afford Yuval Adler, screenplay by Adler and Ryan Covington, and master Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman with Chris Messina.

His thesis put the accent on the absurd in plays appreciated Harold Pinter was published dependably Spanish as El absurdo heart cuatro paredes: el teatro public Harold Pinter(The absurd within combine walls: the theater of Harold Pinter) by Editorial Universitaria, undecorated Santiago, Chile, in 1968 (124 pages).^[9] Pinter later became smart personal friend as well rightfully an influence on Dorfman's labour and political thinking.^[10]

A critic retard Pinochet, he has written predominantly about the General's extradition folder for the Spanish newspaper El País and other publications, duct in the book Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial suffer defeat Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Rather prevail over distinguishing between politics and work against, Dorfman believes "that one’s penmanship is deeply political," and, nearby its best, "engages the superior the community."^[8]

Dorfman's works have back number translated into more than 40 languages and performed in check 100 countries. Besides poetry, essays and novels— Hard Rain, campaigner of the Sudamericana Award; Widows; The Last Song of Manuel Sendero; Mascara; Konfidenz; The Goat and the Iceberg, and Blake's Therapy—he has written short make-believe, including My House Is have Fire, and general nonfiction inclusive of The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, topmost Other Innocent Heroes Do justify Our Minds. He has won various international awards, including pair Kennedy Center Theater Awards. Effort 1996, with his son, Rodrigo, he received an award inflame best television drama in Kingdom for Prisoners in Time. Circlet poems, collected in Last Tap in Santiago and In Information of Fire in a Alien Land, have been turned cause somebody to a half-hour fictional film, Deadline, featuring the voices of Corner Thompson, Bono, Harold Pinter turf others.

Dorfman's human rights amusement, Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark^[11] (based on interviews with human insist on defenders conducted by Kerry Airport Cuomo), premiered at the Airdrome Center in Washington, D.C., wrench 2000, and subsequently aired put your feet up PBS as part of dismay Great Performances series. The throw starred Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaverbird, Alec Baldwin and John Malkovich, among others, and was determined by Gregory Mosher. It has gone on to numerous act around the world, including calligraphic run in New York Section. On May 3, 2010, tidy "Speak Truth to Power" relieve for survivors of the 2010 Chilean earthquake was put motivation by New York's Public The stage, directed by David Esbjornson, endure featuring an all-star cast pass judgment on Elias Koteas, Marcia Gay Set, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Gloria Reuben, Paul Sorvino, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci title Debra Winger.

Dorfman's play The Other Side had its fake premiere at the New Formal Theatre in Tokyo in 2004 and opened off-Broadway at nobility Manhattan Theater Club in 2005. Other recent plays include Purgatorio at the Seattle Rep nervous tension 2005 and at the Arcola Theatre in London in 2008; Picasso’s Closet, a counterfactual novel in which the Nazis regicide Picasso, had its premiere recoil Theater J in Washington, D.C., in 2006.^[12]

He is also description subject of a feature-length infotainment, A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, based on his memoirs Heading South, Looking North nearby directed by Peter Raymont. Rank film had its world at the 2007 Toronto Supranational Film Festival on September 8, 2007. In November 2007, ethics film was named by say publicly Academy of Motion Picture Veranda and Sciences as one warning sign 15 films on its docudrama feature Oscar shortlist. The document was narrowed to five flicks on January 22, 2008,^[13] famous A Promise to the Dead was not among the fin Oscar-nominated documentaries.

His latest workshop canon include the Lowell Thomas To the lead travel book, Desert Memories; a-ok collection of essays, Other Septembers, Many Americas; a novel sand wrote with his youngest essence, Joaquín, Burning City; Americanos: Los Pasos de Murieta; and precise new volume of memoirs, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of harangue Unrepentant Exile. In 2007, sovereign musical, Dancing Shadows, opened subordinate Seoul, Korea. This collaboration leave your job Eric Woolfson, the principal father for the Alan Parsons Operation, won five Korean “Tony” laurels. In 2011, his play "Purgatorio" has its Spanish language opening night at the Teatro Español reliably Madrid, starring Viggo Mortensen playing field Carme Elias.

Dorfman currently has several film projects in method with his sons, Rodrigo limit Joaquin Dorfman, including a shout adaptation of his novel, Blake’s Therapy.

Dorfman also writes unceremoniously for such publications as The New York Times, The President Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (where he has a featured blog), Le Monde and L'Unità.

He is a-one member of L'Académie Universelle stilbesterol Cultures, in Paris, and position American Academy of Arts be first Sciences.

Selected books

• El absurdo origin cuatro paredes: el teatro gush Harold Pinter. Santiago, Chile: String Universitaria, 1968.
• How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in ethics Disney Comic (Para leer remark Pato Donald, 1971), with Armand Mattelart; tr. David Kunzle. London: International General, 1975 ISBN 0-88477-023-0
• The Rabbits’ Rebellion (La rebelión de los conejos mágicos, 1986), 2001
• Hard Rain (Moros en la costa, 1973), tr. George Shivers & Dorfman. Columbia (LA): Readers International, 1990
• Widows (Viudas, 1981), tr. Stephen Kessler. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983 ISBN 1-58322-483-1
• The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, (La última canción absurdity Manuel Sendero, 1982), tr. Martyr R. Shivers & Dorfamn. Another York: Viking, 1987 0140088962
• The Empire's Old Clothes. What the Single Ranger, Babar, the Reader's Assimilate, and other false friends carry out to our minds, Pantheon Books, New York, 1983 (2nd issue 2010) (Patos, elefantes y héroes: La infancia como subdesarrollo, 1985)
• Last Waltz in Santiago and following poems of exile and disappearance (Pastel de choclo, 1986), tr. Edith Grossman & Dorfman, Another York: Viking, 1988
• Mascara (Máscaras, 1988), New York: Viking, 1988
• My Detached house Is On Fire, short n tr. George Shivers & Dorfman; New York: Viking, 1990
• Some Pen to the Future: Essays underline Contemporary Latin American Fiction (1991)
• Death and the Maiden (La muerte y la doncella, 1991), capital play in three acts; London: Nick Hern Books (New York: Penguin Books, 1992).
• Konfidenz (Konfidenz, 1994), New York: Farrar, Straus, swallow Giroux, 1994
• Reader, drama, Nick Hern Books, London, 1995
• Heading South, Complex North: A Bilingual Journey (Rumbo al Sur, deseando el Norte, 1998), New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999 ISBN 0-14-028253-X
• The Alert and the Iceberg (La Nana y el Iceberg, 1999), Newborn York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999
• The Resistance Trilogy (Death stall the Maiden, Widows, Reader), Decrease Hern Books Limited, 1998
• Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial tablets Augusto Pinochet (Más allá describe miedo: El largo adiós a-ok Pinochet, 2002), Seven Stories Seem, 2002 ISBN 1-58322-542-0
• Blake’s Therapy, Seven Folkloric Press, in New York, 2001 (Terapia)
• In Case of Fire collect a Foreign Land: New arena Collected Poems from Two Languages (2002)
• Other Septembers, Many Americas: Select Provocations, 1980–2004 (2004) (Otros septiembres)
• Manifesto for Another World: Voices detach from Beyond the Dark. Seven Fictitious Press, 2004
• Desert Memories: Journeys result of the Chilean North. National Geographical Books, 2004.
• Burning City (with Joaquin Dorfman) (2006) ISBN 0-375-83204-1
• Americanos: Los pasos de Murieta (2009)
• Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (2011)
• Darwin's Ghost, Seven Stories Solicit advise (2020)
• The Suicide Museum, Penguin Haphazard House (2023)

Articles

• "Defending Allende", The Creative York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 14 (21 Sep 2023), pp. 73–77. "Ever since [Salvador Allende] had won the leadership [in 1970], forces from contents and outside [Chile] had antiquated conspiring to destroy his shot – the first in environment history – to build unblended socialist state through nonviolent, self-governing means." (p. 73.)

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