Jorge Edwards

Jorge Edwards was born in Santiago on 29 June 1931. He studied law at the University of Chile, then at Princeton, and entered the diplomatic service: embassy secretary in Paris in the sixties, chargé d'affaires in Havana, he then worked in Paris under Pablo Neruda, then ambassador. Appointed ambassador to France himself in 2010, he received the National Prize for Literature in 1994 and the Cervantes Prize in 1999, and died in Madrid on 17 March 2023.

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