| Ariel Dorfman, (adorfman@duke.edu), (http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/), Walter Hines Page Research professor of Literature and Latin American Studies in the Center for International Studies, and Professor, Romance Studies. He teaches courses each Spring semester on Spanish-American and Third-World literature and culture. He is the author of many books of literary and cultural criticism. His major publications in this area include: Imaginación y Violencia en América, Hacia la liberación del lector americano, Para Leer al Pato Donald, The Empire's Old Clothes, and Some write to the Future. As a writer of fiction, he has published, among others, Blake's Therapy (Terapia), Viudas (Widows), Cría Ojos, La Ultima Canción de Manuel Sendero, Máscaras, The Nanny and the Iceberg, and Konfidenz. He has also written poetry In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land and Pruebas al Canto, receiving the 1995 Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. He contributes regularly to a number of publications worldwide as a commentator and journalist. His plays, Widows, Reader, and Death and the Maiden, have received many major awards. He is the first Latin American writer to receive the Sir Lawrence Olivier Award for best play in England (1992). The film Death and the Maiden was co-written and co-produced by Professor Dorfman and directed by Roman Polanski. Professor Dorfman has also co-written an award winning BBC teleplay (1995) and co-directed the short, My House is on Fire. Before coming to Duke, he taught at the Universities of Chile, Amsterdam, and Maryland, and at the Sorbonne. His latest books are Exorcising Terror, The
Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet, the memoir Heading South, Looking North (published in Spanish as Rumbo al Sur, Deseando el Norte) and a novel he has co-written with his son, Joaquin Dorfman, The Burning City. His play, Speak Truth to Power: Voices From Beyond the Dark, premiered at the Kennedy Center and was transmitted nationally as part of the PBS series great performances. Professor Dorfman's newest projects include the staging of Purgatorio, another play, on Broadway in 2004 and The Other Side, which will premiere in Tokyo's New National Theatre in April 2004 and will then open in England directed by Sir Peter Hall. National Geographic will publish his Desert Memories: A Journey through the Chilean North, in fall of 2003. Education:
- PhD University of Chile, 1965
- Licenciado en Filosofia con Mencion en Lieratura General (MA equivalent) University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1965
Research Interests:
Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies; has a Licenciatura in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1965. He has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam. His major publications include the essays, How to Read Donald Duck (in collaboration with Armand Mattlelart, 1971), The Empire's Old Clothes (1983), and Someone Writes to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction (1991). He is also the author of a collection of poetry, Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (1988), and In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (2002), and the memoir, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1998). His novels include Widows (1983), The Last Song of Manuel Sendero (1986), Mascara (1988), Hard Rain (1990), Konfidenz (1995), The Nanny and the Iceburg (1999), and Blake's Therapy (2001). His plays include Widows (which won a New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center), and Reader (winner of the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center) which is in production world wide. Death and the Maiden, winner of many awards and also in production worldwide, was made into a Roman Polanski film. Mascara (with son, Rodrigo Dorfman), premiered in Bonn in 1998, and Who's Who (also with Rodrigo Dorfman) premiered in Frankfurt in 1998. He also has created a collection of his plays, The Resistance Trilogy, which includes Death and the Maiden, Reader, and Widows. His newest works include Exorcising Terror: The Incredible, Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet, Other Septembers, Many Americas, Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North, and the novel The Burning City, which he wrote with his youngest son, Joaquin Dorfman. His latest plays include The Other Side, which opened in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2005, starring Rosemary Harris and John Cullum, and Purgatorio, which opened at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in October 2005 and will open in Great Britain in 2008. A documentary feature film based on his life premiered at the Toronto Intl Film Festival: "A Promise to the Dead: the Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman," directed by Peter Raymont. Recent Publications (More Publications)
- A. Dorfman. "Der Dichter-Präsident." Frankfurter Rundschau (11-6-08).
- A. Dorfman. Burning City (screenplay). 2008. (Wrote screenplay version of novel "Burning
City" with Joaquin Dorfman for Richard
Gladstein, producer.)
- A. Dorfman. Blake's Therapy (screenplay). 2008. (Wrote screenplay version of my
novel "Blake's Therapy" with Rodrigo Dorfman
for Ventazul Film Productions, producer
Salma Hayek)
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