Jaime Collyer

Jaime Collyer ( born 1955 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean writer, essayist, translator, and university professor.

Life

Studied architecture and psychology at the Universidad de Chile. 1981 emigration to Spain, where postgraduate studies in development sociology, international relations and political science. Return to Chile after the Pinochet dictatorship. Short term chief editor of the publishing house " Planeta Chilena ". Meanwhile Collyer taught literature and creative writing at the private university " Diego Portales ."

Services

Jaime Collyer is one of the leaders of the " nueva narrativa chilena ", a vaguely defined literary movement of Chilean literature of the 1990s. 1992 served its polemical article " casus belli " in the magazine APSI as one of the few manifestos of not institutionally organized young generation of writers.

Collyer importance as a writer is based primarily on his short stories, in the tradition of the great Latin American storytellers, the thematic and narratological - va Jorge Luis Borges - are. What is striking is the effort to leave the limited horizon of Chile and to avoid a " regionalist " notation. The novels Collyer are much more controversial. 1995 caused " Cien pájaros volando " a minor scandal, as it was played here too clearly with the issue of sodomy.

Works

Novels

• El infiltrado (1989)
• Cien pájaros volando (1995 )
• El habitante del cielo (2002)
• La fidelidad presunta de las partes (2009)
• Fulgor (2011)

Stories

• Gente al acecho (1998)
• La bestia en casa (1998)
• La voz del amo (2005)

Children's Books

• Hacia el nuevo mundo (1986 )