Roberto Castillo
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Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author born in 1957 (Ph.D.Harvard University, 1992, A.M. Harvard University, 1987; M.A. Vanderbilt University, 1985; B.A. Kenyon College, 1982) who currently teaches Latin American and comparative literature at Haverford College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published scholarly essays on Latin American Colonial and contemporary literature, short fiction, and poetry, as well as travel chronicles and literary and opinion columns for Chilean print and web media. His novel "Muriendo por la dulce patria mía" (Planeta, 1998) was based on the life of Chilean heavyweight boxer Arturo Godoy.