Pedro Lemebel is a Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He is known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective.

Publications

Loco afan: Cronicas del sidario (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1996.
De perlas y cicatrices (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1998.
La esquina es mi corazon (chronicles). Santiago: Seix Barral, 2001.
Zanjon de la Aguada. Santiago: Seix Barral, 2003.
My Tender Matador (novel). Grove.

References

Fernando A. Blanco (ed.), Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel. Santiago de Chile: LOM, 2004.

External links

Page devoted to Lemebel with biography etc.
Diana Palaversich, translated by Paul Allatson "The Wounded Body of Proletarian Homosexuality in Pedro Lemebel's Loco afan" Latin American Perspectives 29.2 (March 2002): 99-118.
Review of My Tender Matador
Review of My Tender Matador by Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Chilean-writers

Other pages about Chilean writers

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