Pedro Lemebel

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Lemebel and the second or maternal family name is Mardones.
Pedro Lemebel in 2005

Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel (21 November 1952 – 23 January 2015) was an openly gay Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He was known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective. He was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014. He died of cancer of the larynx on 23 January 2015 in Santiago, Chile.[1][2]

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