Elias Letelier, (Santiago, Chile 1957).
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| Elias Letelier reading in Montreal (2005) |
During the dictatorship, he worked to establish the External Resistance Fronts in southern Santiago (ADA) in preparation for the Chilean popular uprising, as well with the establishment of literary workshops for the Society of Chilean Writers, along many today’s mainstream writers. During that time, he directed over 80 literary workshops with Chilean workers. He left Chile in November of 1981 and carried out functions as Director of El Siglo (The Century News). From 1981-1983, I worked as Human Rights Commissioner at Maritime University in Canada, as well as the correspondent for various newspaper publications. Later he participated as cofounder of FEW-Q and the Network of Friends and Family of Chilean Political Prisoners. Most recently, He works as the literary editor of Poetas.com, the electronic and paper cooperative publishing house of the Anti-imperialist Poets of Latin America as well as the cultural advisor to several newspaper and magazines
Books Published:
Anaconda. Antologia di Poeti Amerciani:
homaggio ai Prigionieri Politici pagnoli detenuti in Francia.
Ottawa: Editorial Poetas Antiimperialistas de América, 2002
ISBN 1894879-04-X
Mural. Ottawa: Editorial Poetas Antiimperialistas de América, 2002
ISBN 1-894879-01-5
Histoire de la Nuit. Montreal: L'Hexagone, 1999.
ISBN 2-89006-619-3
Silence. Montreal: L'Hexagone, 1998
ISBN 2-89006-583-9
Silence. Montreal: The Muses' Company, 1992.
ISBN 0-919754-41-4 ISBN 0-919754-40-6
Symphony. Montreal: The Muses' Company, 1988
ISBN 0-919754-12-6 ISBN 0-919754-10-4
Canciones del Gato. Santiago: Horizonte, 1976
(This book was seized under the Pinochet dictatorship.)
Education:
Literature (M.A. partially completed)
Carleton University, Ottawa
Robotics
Institut supérieur de l’électronique, Montreal
Computer Technology
La Cité Collégiale, Ottawa
Psychology
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Psychology
Gastonia College, North Carolina University
Santiago, Chile
Anthropological Linguistics
Major in Etruscology
Universidad de Chile
