Gonzalo Contreras
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Gonzalo Contreras is a Chile
an writer. In 1991 he won the first edition of El Mercurio
s Concurso de Novela Inédita (unpublished novel competition) with La ciudad anterior. He went on to publish El nadador in 1994 and El gran mal in 1998. Literary critic Ignacio Valente described Contreras' prose as very good, as opaque in the best sense, like that of Kafka.
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an writer. In 1991 he won the first edition of El Mercurio
El Mercurio
El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's paper-of-record and its Valparaíso edition is the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation. El Mercurio is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P...
s Concurso de Novela Inédita (unpublished novel competition) with La ciudad anterior. He went on to publish El nadador in 1994 and El gran mal in 1998. Literary critic Ignacio Valente described Contreras' prose as very good, as opaque in the best sense, like that of Kafka.