Antonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta | |
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.jpg) Skármeta in 1981 | |
| Born | Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic November 7, 1940 Antofagasta, Chile |
| Died | October 15, 2024 (aged 83) Santiago, Chile |
| Occupation | Writer, scriptwriter, director |
| Language | Spanish |
| Education | Instituto Nacional |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Genre | Novel |
| Notable works | Ardiente paciencia (1985) |
| Notable awards | Prix Médicis étranger (2001) Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa (2011) National Prize for Literature (2014) |
| Spouse | Cecilia Boisier (div.) Nora María Preperski |
| Children | Beltrán Skármeta Boisier Gabriel Skármeta Boisier Fabián Skármeta Preperski |
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic[a] (November 7, 1940 – October 15, 2024) was a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Skármeta studied at Instituto Nacional of Santiago.
His 1985 novel and film[2] Ardiente paciencia ("Burning Patience") inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, Il Postino (The Postman). Passionate about cinema, Skármeta wrote several scripts[3] and directed at least two films. Subsequent editions of the book bore the title El cartero de Neruda (Neruda's Postman). Thereafter, his fiction won numerous awards and has been adapted into nearly thirty different languages.
Skármeta studied philosophy and literature both in Chile and at Columbia University in New York. From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile (first to Buenos Aires and later to West Berlin), he taught literature at the University of Chile.
In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]
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 taught 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.[5]
His unpublished play El Plebiscito was the basis of Pablo Larraín's successful 2012 drama film No.
His 2010 novel Un padre de película was the basis of O Filme da Minha Vida, a Brazilian film released in 2017. Skármeta himself suggested the project to Brazilian director and actor Selton Mello.
Skármeta died on October 15, 2024, at the age of 83.[6]
Works
[edit]- El entusiasmo, 1967.
- Desnudo en el tejado, 1969.
- Tiro libre, 1973.
- Soñé que la nieve ardía, 1975.
- Novios solitarios, 1975.
- No paso nada, 1980.
- La insurrección, 1982.
- Ardiente paciencia, 1985.
- El cartero de Neruda, 1985.
- Matchball, 1989.
- La composición, 1998.
- La boda del poeta, 1999.
- La chica del trombón, 2001.
- El baile de la Victoria, 2003.
- Los días del arco iris, 2010.
- Libertad de Movimiento, 2016.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Spanish: [anˈtonjo esˈkaɾmeta]
References
[edit]- ^ Antonio Skármeta es el nuevo Premio Nacional de Literatura. cooperativa.cl. 22 August 2014
- ^ "Ardiente Paciencia (film)". IMDb.
- ^ "Antonio Skarmeta's 1988 script". IMDb. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "Berlinale: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ^ Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, official website
- ^ "Universidad de Chile despide al escritor Antonio Skármeta - Universidad de Chile" [University of Chile bids farewell to writer Antonio Skármeta - University of Chile]. uchile.cl (in Spanish). 2024-10-15. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
Further reading
[edit]- "Skarmeta, Antonio 1940–". Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Vol. 80. Gale Research. 1999. pp. 398–400. ISBN 0-7876-3090-X.
External links
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- Antonio Skármeta at IMDb
- Antonio Skármeta (literaturfestival.com)
- Antonio Skármeta at Library of Congress, with 56 library catalogue records
- 1940 births
- 2024 deaths
- Ambassadors of Chile to Germany
- 20th-century Chilean novelists
- 20th-century Chilean male writers
- Chilean male novelists
- Chilean people of Croatian descent
- People from Antofagasta
- Prix Médicis étranger winners
- Columbia University alumni
- Colorado College faculty
- 21st-century Chilean novelists
- 21st-century Chilean male writers
- Academic staff of the University of Chile