Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman ( born May 6, 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Chilean author, playwright, essayist and human rights activist.
Life
After his birth, his family moved to the U.S. and finally in 1954 to Chile. Dorfman attended the University of Chile, where he later became a professor.
From 1970 to 1973 he worked for the government of then-President Salvador Allende. He was forced by the bloody military coup led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973, to go into exile in the United States.
Since 1985 he has taught at Duke University of North Carolina, where it has a professorship in Latin American Studies and the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature held.
Since the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990 Dorfman shares his food point between Santiago de Chile and the United States.
His work often deals with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, with the tracks of exile. Its probably best-known work The Death and the Maiden ( Death and the Maiden / La muerte y la doncella ) deals with the encounter of a former torture victim with the man, whom she believes to have been tortured. It was filmed in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.
As Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, he pursued the lawsuits against him in London and Santiago de Chile; he reported this, including, among others for the Spanish newspaper El País. Next wrote the book The Terror conquer: The long shadow of Augusto Pinochet on precisely that topic.