FUGUET, Alberto

2017 Visitor
2017 50th Anniversary Guest
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South America
  • Chile

Alberto Fuguet (Chile, IWP '94) is a fiction writer, film critic, and director. Of his eight novels in Spanish, the best-seller Mala Onda (1991) appeared in English as Bad Vibes; The Movies of My Life was published in the US in 2003; the story collection Shorts appeared in 2005. [Road Story], a graphic novel came out in 2007. Fuguet has directed, written, or co-written five films. He is a Writer-in-Residence and teaches at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile. 

Happening Now

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

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