Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn was born in Santiago on 3 September 1929. In 1942 he entered the School of Fine Arts as a non-enrolled student of drawing and painting, before turning to writing. The Casa de las Américas prize, received in 1966, took him to Cuba, where he lived for a time. From 1970 he directed the poetry workshop of the Universidad Católica, then in 1972 joined the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Chile. He died of cancer in Santiago on 10 July 1988.

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• PoetryThe Dark Room and Other PoemsLa pieza oscuraEnrique Lihn · 1963Literature