Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Special Lecture by Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, Simon Bolivar Professor 2014-15, University of Cambridge
Special Lecture: Trabajos orgánicos
An award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic, Diamela Eltit published her first texts during the dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) while becoming involved in visual arts and diverse modes of performance as a founding member of the renowned CADA group. Her novels, some highly experimental and others more accessible in narrative style, always bring provocative perspectives to bear on issues such as dictatorship, disappearance, and state terror; poverty, neoliberal capitalism, and marginalization; gender and sexuality; national identity, indigenous cultures, and racism. Eltit is also an important critic in the field of Latin American literature and has lectured at many institutions in the US and Latin America.