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Poli Délano

Died in 2017

Enrique Délano Falcón, known as Poli Délano, was born in Madrid on 22 April 1936, the son of the writer and diplomat Luis Enrique Délano and the photographer Lola Falcón. He spent his childhood mostly in Mexico and the United States, following his father's postings. Having entered the University of Chile in 1953 to become an English teacher, he left around 1959 for China as a translator. He taught American literature at the Instituto Pedagógico from 1962 until the coup d'état, lived in exile in Mexico, where he received the national short story prize in 1975, and returned to Chile in 1984. He died in August 2017.

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