NATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE – CHILE 2022
ALFAGUARA NOVEL PRIZE 2010
YASNAYA POLYANA BOOK PRIZE for THE ART OF RESURRECTION 2019
He grew up and worked for many years in the saltpeter mines of Atacama, in northern Chile. His novel La Reina cantaba rancheras (Queen Isabel Sang Rancheras) catapulted him to fame, turning into one of the most widespread literary works in recent Chilean fiction. Two years later, he won the National Book Award again. His most well-known novel La contadora de películas (The Movie-teller) has been translated into 19 languages and was adapted to a major motion picture. In 2001, Rivera Letelier was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Literature by the French Ministry of Culture, in 2019 he received the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for El arte de la resurección (The art of resurrection), and in 2022 won the prestigious Chilean National Award for Literature.
“For the first time and after many years, something new and original
in Latin American literature.”
Le Magazine Littéraire
“Hernán Rivera Letelier is one of the most original voices
of the new Latin American narrative.”
El Mundo
“The simplicity of the worker, a life full of anecdotes and his talent
to tell them,gave rise to a successful writer who, next to Isabel Allende
and Antonio Skármeta, is considered
as the most recognized Chilean narrative today.”
Clarín
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