Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's José Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is best known for his crónicas and one novel,
My Tender Matador, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda.
-Pedro Lemebel es un fenómeno de la literatura latinoamericana de este tiempo.- A Lemebel le ponen sitio las miradas (las lecturas) de la admiración, el morbo, el regocijo de los turistas de lo inconveniente, la extrañeza, la solidaridad, la normalidad de los que están al tanto de...
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