Emergencias

by Diamela Eltit

Editorial Planeta, embrión de lo que es hoy el Grupo Planeta, se fundó en 1945, hace más de sesenta años. Es la editorial de prestigio con mayor influencia en el mundo de habla hispana. Anualmente convoca el Premio Planeta, el más destacado de los certámenes españoles, junto a otros de gran relevancia literaria.

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Diamela Eltit (born 1947, Santiago de Chile) is a well known Chilean writer and university professor. Between 1966 and 1976 she graduated in Spanish studies at the Universidad Católica de Chile and followed graduate studies in Literature at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. In 1977 she began a career as Spanish and literature teacher at high school level in several public schools in Santiago, such as the Instituto Nacional and the Liceo Carmela Carvajal. In 1984 she started teaching at universities in Chile, where she is currently professor at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana and abroad. During the last thirty years Eltit has lectured and participated in conferences, seminars and literature events throughout the world, in Europe, Africa, North and Latin America. She has been several times visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and also at Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Washington University at Saint Louis, University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia and, since 2007, New York University, where she holds a teaching appointment as Distinguished Global Visiting Professor and teaches at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish. In the academic year 2014-2015 Eltit was invited by Cambridge University, U.K., to the Simon Bolivar Chair at the Center of Latin American Studies. Since 2014 Diamela Eltit´s personal and literary archives are deposited at the University of Princeton. Through her career several hundreds of Latin American young writers have participated as students at her highly appreciated literature workshops.

Reviews

[Nameh dah]

Textos varios de la señora Diamela. Escritos sobre literatura, arte e incluso una entrevista a la gigante Elena C.

Los más interesantes sin duda fueron los referidos a las memorias de las traidoras del golpe y el escrito sobre la novela El río.