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Antonio Skármeta

Died in 2024

Antonio Skármeta was born in 1940 in Antofagasta. On a scholarship, he spent two years in New York, where he studied at Columbia University, and published a first collection of short stories in 1967. After the coup of 1973, exile took him to West Berlin; according to Memoria Chilena, he taught screenwriting there at the German Film and Television Academy. Back in Chile in 1989, he hosted a television programme devoted to books, then represented his country in Germany from 2000 to 2003. Winner of the National Prize for Literature in 2014, he died on 15 October 2024.

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