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Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist and playwright. His books include Other Septembers, Heading South, Looking North, Many Americas and a novel, Burning City, written with his son Joaquin. His plays include Death and the Maiden, which received its London revival in the autumn of 2011.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The Other 9/11

Ariel Dorfman

‘Chile, for all its imperfections and failures, found a way of responding to the terror inflicted on us (yes, us, we Chileans), a path of peace rather than war, a path of understanding rather than retribution.’

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September, 1973

Ariel Dorfman

‘It's that simple: there is a day in my past, a day many years ago in Santiago de Chile, when I should have died and did not.’

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Chile

Ariel Dorfman

‘But it is not only external, physical problems that Chilean culture is facing. By suddenly being forced into the open, artists and intellectuals are now coming up against an internal dilemma.’

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How to Read the Comics

Ariel Dorfman

‘Unlike the other comic strips in the magazine, ‘The Adventures of Mampato’ was conceived, illustrated, and entirely produced in Chile.’

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