| LC control no. | no 96002345 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ8098.22.E57 |
| Personal name heading | Lemebel, Pedro |
| Variant(s) | Mardones Lemebel, Pedro Lemebel, Pedro Mardones Mardones Lemebel, Pedro Segundo Mardones, Pedro |
| See also | Corporate body: Yeguas del Apocalipsis (Artists' collective) |
| Other standard no. | Q432239 71608576 500463770 0000000059395300 1525399 |
| Associated country | Chile |
| Birth date | 1955-11-21 |
| Death date | 2015-01-23 |
| Place of birth | Santiago (Chile) |
| Place of death | Santiago (Chile) |
| Field of activity | Literature Performance art |
| Profession or occupation | Writers Performance artists Essayists Novelists Artists |
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| Found in | La esquina es mi corazón, 1995: t.p. (Pedro Lemebel) front cover flap (b. Santiago [Chile]) De perlas y cicatrices, 2010: front flap (b. 1955 in Santiago de Chile; writer, visual artist) Mi amiga Gladys, 2016: front flap (Pedro Lemebel; b. 1952, d. 2015) Lemebel, Pedro. The waters of Zanjón, via Latin American literature today website, viewed Aug. 25, 2022 (Pedro Lemebel; "my family, which had always lived in Santiago"; Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) was a Chilean chronicler, essayist, and novelist who famously critiqued the realities of Chile during and after the Pinochet dictatorship. He offered his critiques from an urban, queer perspective, focusing on the lives and experiences of the most marginalized members of Santiago society as they experienced love, violence, and the horrors of the AIDS epidemic) <https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2017/04/waters-zanjon-pedro-lemebel/> Wikipedia, August 25, 2022 (Pedro Lemebel; Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel (21 November 1952 - 23 January 2015) was an openly gay Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist; born Santiago, Chile; died Santiago, Chile; studied plastic art at University of Chile's Art School. He subsequently became a high school art teacher but was let go based on the presumption of his homosexuality) Center for the Art of Translation website, August 25, 2022 (Pedro Lemebel; Pedro Mardones Lemebel (1952-2015) was a Chilean writer and performance artist. Together with Francisco Casas Silva, he formed the interdisciplinary art collective Yeguas del Apocalipsis, making incisive work during the final years of the dictatorship in Chile and the uneven transition that followed. The crónicas--originally published as columns in the newspaper or read on his radio show--often describe the lives of the Chilean working class or the transgender community in Santiago, while critiquing the politics of capitalism and dictatorship. Lemebel was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Anna Seghers-Pries, and the José Donoso Prize in Latin American Letters, with work translated into English, German, French, and Italian. His only novel, My Tender Matador, was published in English by Grove Press (trans. Katherine Silver, 2005). He passed away from throat cancer in early 2015) <https://www.catranslation.org/person/pedro-lemebel/> Greenwell, Garth. A surreal end for an unforgettable queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015, in The New Yorker, January 28, 2015, viewed online August 25, 2022 (Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer, artist, activist, and provocateur; Pedro Mardones--he adopted Lemebel, his mother's family name, in the late nineteen-eighties--was born in 1952 in one of Santiago de Chile's poorest neighborhoods; he studied metal forging and furniture making before working briefly as an art teacher in two high schools. (According to the obituary in El País, he was fired because of his homosexuality.); In 1987, Lemebel formed an arts collective with the poet and visual artist Francisco Casas Silva. Over the next decade, the duo often interrupted cultural and political events, calling attention to those they said were being ignored, especially queer people, people with AIDS, and sex workers. They dubbed themselves Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, the Mares of the Apocalypse; Alongside the art he produced as part of the Yeguas, Lemebel wrote pieces, known as crónicas, for various newspapers in Chile, and these brought him a popular following; best known internationally for his 2001 novel "My Tender Matador," the only one of his books that is available in English) <https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/surreal-end-unforgettable-queen-pedro-lemebel-1952-2015> |
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