Ariel Dorfman

Argentine-Chilean-American Novelist, Playwright, Essayist, Academic & Human Rights activist

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Ariel Dorfman Biography

Dorfman was born in Argentina but his family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, returning to Chile in 1954. He attended and was later a professor at the University of Chile.From 1970 to 1973, Dorfman was part of the administration of president Salvador Allende. He was forced into exile following the bloody military coup of 1973 in which General Augusto Pinochet came to power.Since 1985 he has taught at Duke University.Since the restoration (1990) of democracy in Chile, he divides his time between Santiago and the United States.

Dorfman has written fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, the trials of exile. His most famous play, Death and the Maiden, dealt with the encounter of a former torture victim with the man she believed tortured her; it was made into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.

Dorfman has also been one of Pinochet's most eloquent critics, and wrote extensively about his extradition case for the Spanish newspaper El País and other publications.Ariel Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/18/2024.

Ariel Dorfman Videos

  • Ariel Dorfman on Speak Truth to Power - YouTube
  • Feeding on Dreams by Ariel Dorfman - YouTube

Ariel Dorfman Books

  • Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
    Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
  • Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup (Radical History)
    Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup (Radical History)
  • Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North (Directions)
    Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North (Directions)
  • Widows: A Novel
    Widows: A Novel
  • Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
    Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
  • The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
    The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds

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