Pedro Lemebel
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Pedro Lemebel is a Chilean 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.
[edit] Publications
- 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.
[edit] References
- Fernando A. Blanco (ed.), Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel. Santiago de Chile: LOM, 2004.
[edit] External links
- Page devoted to Lemebel with biography etc.
- 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.
- Review of My Tender Matador
- Review of My Tender Matador by Adam Jeffries Schwartz
