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Antonio Skármeta

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in Antofagasta, Chile, Chile

November 07, 1940

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Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic) is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia.

His 1985 novel and film[1] Ardiente paciencia ("Ardent Patience") inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, Il Postino (The Postman). Subsequent editions of the book bore the title El cartero de Neruda (Neruda's Postman). His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide.

Skármeta studied philosophy and literature both in Chile and at Columbia University in New York. From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile (first to Buenos Aires and later to West Berlin), he taught l ...more

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	ساعي بريد نيرودا by Antonio Skármeta, صالح علماني (Translator), أنطونيو سكارميتا, ظافر ناجي (تقديم) 3.66 avg rating — 15,747 ratings — published 1985 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O dia em que a poesia derrotou um ditador by Antonio Skármeta, Luís Carlos Cabral (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 2011 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أب سينمائي by Antonio Skármeta, أنطونيو سكارميتا, عمار الأتاسي (Translator) 3.05 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skármeta, Katherine Silver (Translator) 3.35 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 2003 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	عرس الشاعر by Antonio Skármeta, أنطونيو سكارميتا, صالح علماني (Translator ) 3.53 avg rating — 598 ratings — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Composition by Antonio Skármeta, Alfonso Ruano (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No pasó nada 3.31 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 1979 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	فتاة الترومبون by Antonio Skármeta, أنطونيو سكارميتا, صالح علماني (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Dreamt the Snow was Burning 3.39 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La velocidad del amor 3.17 avg rating — 81 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“القطارات التي تقود إلى الجنة ليست محلية على الدوام ، و هي تعلق في محطات رطبة و خانقة . والقطارات الوحيدة السريعة هي تلك التي تسافر إلى الجحيم .”
― Antonio Skármeta

tags: ساعي-بريد-نيرودا

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“-وماذا في الكلمات من سوء؟
-ليس هناك مخدرًا أسوأ من الكلام”
― Antonio Skármeta, The Postman

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“لابد من تذوق الكلمات، على المرء أن يتركها تذوب في فمه.”
― Antonio Skármeta, The Postman

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Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

21 votes, 15.2%

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 13.8%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

11 votes, 8.0%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.2%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.5%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.8%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.6%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

138 total votes

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