Pedro Lemebel

Pedro Lemebel (b. 1952, Santiago, Chile) is an openly gay Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He is known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective.

List of works

• Loco afán: Crónicas del sidario (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1996.
• De perlas y cicatrices (chronicles). Santiago: LOM, 1998.
• La esquina es mi corazón (chronicles). Santiago: Seix Barral, 2001.
• Zanjón de la Aguada. Santiago: Seix Barral, 2003.
• My Tender Matador (novel). Grove.

Notes

Further reading

• Fernando A. Blanco (ed.), Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel. Santiago de Chile: LOM, 2004.
• Diana Palaversich, translated by Paul Allatson "The Wounded Body of Proletarian Homosexuality in Pedro Lemebel's Loco afan" Latin American Perspectives 29.2 (March 2002): 99-118.

External links

• Page devoted to Lemebel with biography etc.