Pedro Lemebel
Encyclopedia
Pedro Lemebel is an openly
gay
Chile
an essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He is known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer
perspective.
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gay
Gay
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Chile
Chile
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an essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He is known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer
Queer
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perspective.
List of works
- Loco afán: Crónicas del sidario (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1996.
- De perlas y cicatrices (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1998.
- La esquina es mi corazón (chronicles). Santiago: Seix Barral, 2001.
- Zanjón de la Aguada. Santiago: Seix Barral, 2003.
- My Tender Matador (novel). Grove.
Further reading
- Fernando A. Blanco (ed.), Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel. Santiago de Chile: LOM, 2004.
- Diana Palaversich, translated by Paul Allatson "The Wounded Body of Proletarian Homosexuality in Pedro Lemebel's Loco afan" Latin American Perspectives 29.2 (March 2002): 99-118.
External links
- Page devoted to Lemebel with biography etc.