Antonio Gamoneda commemorates Gonzalo Rojas

3 mei 2011 Gonzalo Rojas, one of Latin America’s greatest writers, died last week at the age of 93. Rojas  won numerous literary awards in his time, including the 2003 Cervantes Prize – the top literary award for Spanish-language literature – the Chilean National Prize for Literature, the Queen Sofia Prize of Iberian American Poetry (awarded by the King of Spain), Mexico’s Octavio Paz prize and the Jose Hernandez Prize of Argentina. His body of work includes The Misery of Man in 1948, Against Death (1964), Dark (1977), Transtierro (1979), On Lightning (1981) and From the Water (2007).

PIW poet Antonio Gamoneda recently published an article in Spanish newspaper El País commemorating Gonzalo Rojas and discussing his influence on Chilean literature.