Part of the explanation may be in a sort of boundless energy and insatiable desire to explore anything new (I was an attention deficit disorder child, though I’d suggest, as would my loving parents, that my Attention was simply Ordered in a different way and that this was not a deficiency but a Proficiency). Is there a unifying obsession in your work? Click below the fold to read a fascinating interview with this complex and humane writer, in which he shares some insights into his work.Īs a writer, you've worked in a bewildering number of ways, as a human rights activist, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, critic. It opens at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute on August 8. He has received numerous honorary degrees and is a member of The Académie Universelle des Cultures in France and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.įollowing their Australian premiere of Franz Xaver Kroetz's Tom Fool, independent company Hoy Polloy are premiering Dorfman's Purgatorio, written in 2000. He teaches half the year at Duke University, where he holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies. His best known play – performed in more than one hundred countries - is Death and the Maiden, which has won dozens of best play awards around the world, including England's Olivier award.Īn expatriate from Chile since the 1973 military coup against the government of Salvator Allende led by General Pinochet, Dorfman has been active in the defense of human rights for many decades, and has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and the main forum of UNESCO in Paris. His books have been translated into over 40 languages and received many international prizes. The Chilean-American author of many novels, plays, poems, essays and films in both Spanish and English, he's been called a “literary grandmaster” ( Time) and “one of the greatest living Latin American novelists” ( Newsweek). The Birthday Party and other late thoughtsĪriel Dorfman is by any standard a distinguished writer.
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