Alberto Fuguet
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Alberto Fuguet (born 1964) is a popular Chilean writer and film director who has risen to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative.
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[edit] Biography
Fuguet was born in Chile but lived in Encino, California until he was 13. He is a graduate of the Universidad de Chile's School of Journalism.
In 1999 Time called Fuguet one of the 50 most important Latin Americans for the next millineum. In 2003, he was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine to represent a new generation of Latino writers.
Fuguet currently heads the program in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado's School of Journalism in Santiago. He also writes for the newspaper El Mercurio and is at work on two new projects: the film Perdidos and the book Missing.
[edit] Writing
Fuguet's work is characterized by a United States/Chilean hybridity, with constant cross-references to the respective popular cultures of the two nations. In 1996 he co-edited (with Sergio Gómez) the anthology McOndo, whose title combined McDonalds with Macondo, the fictional town created by Gabriel García Márquez. McOndo represented the confluence of popular culture with magical realism in contemporary Latin American fiction.
Fuguet's other books are the short story collections Sobredosis and Cortos; the novels Mala onda, Por favor, rebobinar, Tinta roja and Las películas de mi vida; and the non-fiction collection Primera parte. Mala onda, which narrates a week in the life of a Santiago teenager in 1980, has received wide acclaim. Tinta roja has been made into a film. Las películas de mi vida is a semi-autobiographical novel about a Chilean seismologist who grew up in California and later returned to Chile. Its protagonist recounts his life with references to movies he has watched. Some of Fuguet's work, including Mala onda and Las películas de mi vida, has been translated into English and published in the United States.
[edit] Novels
- Mala Onda
- Tinta Roja
- Por favor rebobinar
- Las películas de mi vida
[edit] Short stories
- Sobredosis
- Cortos
[edit] Film
In 2005 Fuguet directed the film Se Arrienda which he co-wrote with Francisco Ortega. He also wrote the script for En un lugar de la noche (Martín Rodríguez, 2000).
[edit] External links
- Alberto Fuguet's blog on literature (partly in Spanish)
- Alberto Fuguet's blog on film (partly in Spanish)
Se Arrienda - Se Arrienda official site- Archive of articles by Alberto Fuguet
- "Hijos, un cuento en dos actos" - a short story by Alberto Fuguet
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