Cristián GÓMES

Cristián GÓMES
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South America
  • Chile
Spanish

Cristián GÓMES is a professor at Diego Portales University, a regular contributor to well-known magazines, and a dynamic promoter of poetry, and the winner, in 2002, of the prize “El Vina Y La Poesia,” sponsored by Fundación Pablo Neruda and El Mercurio Newspaper. Besides his three collections of poetry, he has edited the Anthology of Chilean Poetry (1999), and surveyed his country’s poetic landscape in his Panorama of Modern Chilean Poetry (2001). He is participating courtesy of the U.S. Department of State.

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  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

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  • In the January 2024 iteration of the French/English non-fiction site Frictions, T J Benson writes about “Riding Afrobeats Across the World.” Also new, a next installment in the bilingual series featuring work by students from Paris VIII’s Creative Writing program and the University of Iowa’s NFW program.

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