Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn Carrasco (3 September 1929 – 10 July 1988) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram (1932-2008) and they had one daughter: Andrea María Lihn Mingram, an actress.
Born in 1929 at Santiago, Chile, Lihn aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt during university, he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. Lihn proceeded to develop into a poet, playwright, and novelist. He taught literature at the University of Chile. Lihn views both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his contempt for the contemporary dictatorship, as Chile was governed by a military junta. Works layered with social, political, and religious commentary are common throughout Lihn's canon. His final book, Diario de Muerte was written in the six weeks preceding his death from cancer in Santiago, and the evening before he died, he corrected the proofs.[1]
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[edit] Notable works
[edit] Poetry
- The Dark Room
- Cemetery in Punta Arenas
- Six Poems of Loneliness
- Torture Chamber
- Of All Despondencies
- A Favourite Little Shrine
- Goodnight, Achilles
[edit] Works in English
The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl. by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner, and David Unger, 1978, New Directions [1]
Figures of Speech, transl. by Dave Oliphant, 1999, Host Publications, Inc. [2]
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- ^ The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. J. D. McLatchy ed. Vintage Books: New York, 1996. Pg. 546
[edit] External links
- Enrique Lihn papers, 1941-1988. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California. Papers include correspondence with poets, literary writers and journalists, publishers, artists, critics, and family and friends; research and lecture notes; drawings and collages; clippings, offprints and other printed matter; drafts of novels, poems, scripts, lectures, and essays; publications and photocopies of publications; and notebooks containing transcripts of interviews, drafts of essays and literary writings, letters, notes. Also included are some of the papers of the Chilean painter, Pablo Burchard.
- http://www.enriquelihn.cl
