Enrique Lihn
Playwright, Award Winner
1929 – 1988
Who was Enrique Lihn?
Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram and they had one daughter: Andrea María Lihn Mingram, an actress.
Born in 1929 at Santiago, Chile, Lihn aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt during university, he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. Lihn proceeded to develop into a poet, playwright, and novelist. He taught literature at the University of Chile. Lihn views both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his contempt for the contemporary dictatorship, as Chile was governed by a military junta. Works layered with social, political, and religious commentary are common throughout Lihn's canon. His final book, Diario de Muerte was written in the six weeks preceding his death from cancer in Santiago, and the evening before he died, he corrected the proofs.
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1929
Santiago - Also known as
- Enrique Andrés Lihn
- Nationality
- Chile
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chile
Drawing
(1942 - ) - Painting
- University of Chile
- Lived in
- Santiago
( - 1988/07/10)
- Santiago
- Died
- Jul 10, 1988
Santiago
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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