| 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
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- A. Dorfman. "Are there times when we have to accept torture?." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association (Spring, 2007).
- A. Dorfman. "Goodbye to a Grandfather." Sekai :762 (March, 2007). Japanese translation from Los Angeles Times
article printed in December 2006.
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