ARIEL DORFMAN
Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, and human
rights activist. From 1970 to 1973, he was part of the administration of
president Salvador Allende. He was forced into exile following the bloody
military coup of 1973 in which General Augusto Pinochet came to power. Since
1985 he has taught at Duke University.
Dorfman has written fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and, in
later works, the trials of exile. His most famous play, 'Death and the Maiden',
was made into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben
Kingsley. He has written extensively about his extradition in books such as 'How
to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic' and 'Exorcising
Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet'.
Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, and human
rights activist. From 1970 to 1973, he was part of the administration of
president Salvador Allende. He was forced into exile following the bloody
military coup of 1973 in which General Augusto Pinochet came to power. Since
1985 he has taught at Duke University.
Dorfman has written fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and, in
later works, the trials of exile. His most famous play, 'Death and the Maiden',
was made into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben
Kingsley. He has written extensively about his extradition in books such as 'How
to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic' and 'Exorcising
Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet'.