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Something wrong?Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.
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, Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer…If you can deal with it. If it doesn’t destroy you.
More than a traveler, I’m a displacer. In other words, I’m a person who is constantly meditating on what it means not to arrive at a place, but to be on my way somewhere else.
The past is really unknowable, but it’s got to be knowable enough so that we can seek forgiveness for our crimes…
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Karen StrassmanAlso in Death and the Maiden (1994)Rafael YglesiasAlso in Death and the Maiden (1994)
Stuart WilsonAlso in Death and the Maiden (1994)
Roman PolanskiAlso in Death and the Maiden (1994)August WilsonBoth received Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
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