Carla Guelfenbein

In 2012, she published her fourth novel, Nadar desnudas, whose storyline goes by the time of the Popular Unity and the months after Pinochet's coup.

She started to write prematurely, but she published her first novel, The reverse of the soul, in 2002, followed three years later by The woman of my life (chosen as the best novel of the year by the readers of El Mercurio) in 2008 her third book came out, The rest is silence. Her stories have appeared in various mass media, including the newspapers El País and El Mercurio. She also participated, along with other Spanish-speaking authors, in an anthology of commemorative stories of the five years of the Punto de Lectura seal.

She has two children - Micaela Altamirano Guelfenbein (1994) and Carlos Sebastián Altamirano Guelfenbein (1997) of her marriage with Juan Carlos Altamirano Celis, a former Programming Manager of TVN 2005 and son of the socialist leader Carlos Altamirano Orrego. However, she is currently separated.

Carla Guelfenbein returned to Chile in 1987, and currently resides in Santiago.

Carla Guelfenbein Dobry was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1959. She is of Russian-Jewish origin. She was exiled with his parents to England in 1976 as a result of the military coup of September 11, 1973 which meant the fall of the Popular Unity government. Her house had been raided and his mother, Eliana Dobry, professor of philosophy at the University of Chile and socialist militant, was detained by Pinochet's agents; her whereabouts were unknown for three weeks.

Carla Guelfenbein Dobry (Santiago, November 30, 1959) is a Chilean writer, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2015 for her book Contigo en la distancia. Guelfenbein has published six novels; The most recent one is called La estación de las mujeres and it was published in April 2019.