Óscar Contardo
CHILE, 1974
Journalist, writer and literary critic. He studied journalism at the University of Chile and, between 1996 and 2010, was part of the supplement "Artes y Letras" of El Mercurio. He participated in workshops of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, including one on cultural journalism taught by Héctor Feliciano in 2004 and another on profiles with Jon Lee Anderson in 2006.
His works include Siútico: arribismo, abajismo y vida social en Chile (2008), which analyzes classism and careerism in Chilean society, and Raro: una historia gay de Chile (2011), a chronicle on the history of homosexuality in the country, for which he was nominated for the Altazor Award in the category of Best Literary Essay in 2012.
His book Antes de que fuera octubre, about the background of the social outburst in Chile, won the award for best essay in the Best Published Literary Works Awards 2021, granted by the National Council of Books and Reading.
PUBLISHED BY: Spanish worldwide PLANETA / VERGARA / EDICIONES UDP
By Óscar Contardo
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ESSAY, 2020
An urgent, masterful text by the journalist Óscar Contardo analyzing the most significant moments in the history of Chile in the past thirty years. IT'S NOT THIRTY PESOS, IT'S THIRTY...
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ESSAY, 2011
This is a weird book, a book about a weird topic which tries to see what is left behind the official story. This is not a book about a minority, an isolated group. This is the reflection of a...
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NON FICTION, 2008
In 2008 Oscar Contardo published Siútico: arribismo, abajismo y vida social en Chile (Pretension: class ambition, snobbery and society in Chile , Vergara). It spent a year on the best...
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