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Born: November 06 1940

Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia.

His 1985 novel and film[1] Ardiente paciencia inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, Il Postino . Subsequent editions of the book bore the title El cartero de Neruda . His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide.

Skármeta studied philosophy and literature both in Chile and at Columbia University in New York. From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile , he taught literature at the University of Chile.

In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

In 1989, after the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship, the writer returned to Chile in order "to create political space for freedom". He hosted a television program on literature and the arts, which regularly attracted over a million viewers.

From 2000 to 2003 he served as the Chilean ambassador in Germany.

He teaches classes at Colorado College both in Santiago, and Colorado Springs.

In 2011 his novel Los días del arco iris won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world worth $200,000

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Antonio Skármeta

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ساعي بريد نيرودا

أب سينمائي

On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar (Bilingual)

O dia em que a poesia derrotou um ditador

عرس الشاعر

The Composition

No pasó nada

El baile de la Victoria

فتاة الترومبون

La velocidad del amor

I Dreamt the Snow was Burning

Global novel - Το μυθιστόρημα του κόσμου

¡Basta! 100 cuentos contra el abuso infantil

Trauerfarbe Grau: Satire aus Lateinamerika

Forum 10-12/2012

Galletas chinas

Il postino - Nerudas brevbärare

Antología personal

Los nombres de las cosas que allí había

Sophies Matchball