Raúl Armando Zurita Canessa is a Chilean poet known for his innovative and politically engaged works. He has received the Chilean National Prize for Literature (2000), the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award (2016), and the Queen Sofía Ibero-American Poetry Prize (2020).
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Zurita with French writer and translator Fabienne Badru, Mexico, 2013
Zurita with Rodrigo Tomás, eldest son of Gonzalo Rojas, April 2013
Zurita receiving the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award in July 2016 from President Michelle Bachelet and Minister Ernesto Ottone
Zurita and González y Los Asistentes at the Aula Magna, University of Valparaíso, 2017Awards 10
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Raúl Armando Zurita Canessa is a Chilean poet known for his innovative and politically engaged works. He has received the Chilean National Prize for Literature (2000), the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award (2016), and the Queen Sofía Ibero-American Poetry Prize (2020). His major works include Purgatorio (1979), Anteparaíso (1982), and La vida nueva (2018), which combine experimental forms with public and environmental interventions. Zurita survived imprisonment and torture during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, experiences that deeply influenced his poetry. He has also worked as a cultural attaché, translator, and university professor, and his writings have been translated into multiple languages.
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