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Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works of fictions, plays, poems, essays and films in both Spanish and English, has been called a “.

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Dorfman, Ariel 1942-

PERSONAL: Born May 6, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; naturalized Chilean citizen, 1967; exiled from Chile, 1973; came to United States, 1980; son of Adolfo (an economist, engineer, and adviser to the government of Argentina) and Fanny (a Spanish literature teacher; maiden name, Zelicovich) Dorfman; married Maria Angelica Malinarich (an English teacher and social worker), January 7, 1966; children: Rodrigo, Joaquin. Education: University of Chile, Licenciado en filosofia con mencion en literatura general (summa cum laude), 1967.

ADDRESSES: Home—Durham, NC; Santiago, Chile. Offıce—Center for International Studies, Duke University, 2122 Campus Dr., Box 90404, Durham, NC 27708-0404. Agent—Andrew Wylie, The Wylie Agency, Ltd., 250 West 57th St., Ste. 2114, New York, NY 10017. E-mail—[email protected]

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Novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, lecturer, critic, and dramatist. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, teaching assistant in Spanish literature, 1963-65, assistant professor of Spanish literature and journalism, 1965-68,

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Born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, plays, operas, musicals, poems, journalism and essays in both Spanish and English.

Born in Argentina in 1942, Ariel Dorfman spent ten years as a child in New York, until his family was forced out of the United States by the anti-communist frenzy stirred by Joe McCarthy. The Dorfmans ended up in Chile, where Ariel spent his adolescence and youth, living through the Allende revolution and the subsequent resistance inside Chile and abroad after the dictatorship that overthrew Allende in 1973. Accompanied by his wife Angélica, he wandered the globe as an exile, finally settling down in the United States, where he is now Walter Hines Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University. Dorfman’s acclaimed work, which includes the play and film “Death and the Maiden” (currently slated for a revival on Broadway), and the classic text about cultural imperialism, How to Read Donald Duck

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Shortly after his birth, Dorfman’s father, a prominent Argentine professor of economics, moved the family to the United States, and then to Chile in 1954. Dorfman attended the University of Chile, where he later worked as a professor. In 1966, he married Angélica Malinarich, and in 1967, he became a Chilean citizen.

From 1968 to 1969, Dorfman attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, and then he returned to Chile, where he served as cultural advisor to president Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. As a vocal supporter of Allende, Dorfman was forced into exile after army chief Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. Dorfman subsequently lived in Paris, Amsterdam, and Washington, D.C.

Since 1985, Dorfman has taught