Gustavo Gac-Artigas

His most recent publication is a trilingual collection of poetry: deseos longings j'aimerais tant (2020)

Navegando los tiempos de la peste: Coronavirus 2020 (collection of op eds on the Coronavirus crisis)

Navegando los tiempos de la peste: Coronavirus 2020 (collection of op eds on the Coronavirus crisis)

In 2018 his novel Y todos éramos actores, un siglo de luz y sombra [And All of Us Were Actors, A Century Of Light And Shadow] (2016)[4] English edition translated by Andrea G. Labinger was second runner up of the ILBA (International Latino Book Award 2018) in the category Best Fiction Book in Translation - Spanish to English.[5]

He is a regular op-ed contributor to Agencia Efe, Le Monde diplomatique, Edición Chile [3], impactolatino.com https://impactolatino.com/results/?q=Gustavo+Gac-Artigas since 2015

Gustavo Gac-Artigas is a Chilean American writer, playwright, actor, theater director and editor. Born in Santiago, Chile, he has lived in New Jersey since 1995. He is a correspondent member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española-ANLE).

Since 1991, Gac-Artigas has lived in the United States. In 1992 he was invited by the theater department of Texas Christian University as artist in residence to direct his work Discoverings.

In 1984 he tried to return to Chile, but on September 5 of that year his name appeared on a list of about 5,000 people forbidden from entering the country for representing “a danger to the internal security of the State”. This failed attempt forced him to wander, with his group, through Latin America, from Buenos Aires to Bogota crossing through Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. He remained with his group in Colombia for one year performing in different parts of the country. After a hunger strike, he was sent back to Europe, to Rotterdam, and not Paris, because after one year out of France he had lost his political refugee status in that country. Between 1986 and 1989 he lived in the Netherlands, where he continued his theater work and with his group he participated in the Stagedoor Festival (1986) and the Latino Festival of Utrecht (1989). In 1989 he received the “Poetry Park Award” for his story “Dr. Zamenhofstraat.”

In 1971 he returned to Chile where he founded and directed the experimental Theatre del Cobre (TEC) in the Cultural House of El Teniente copper mine during the government of Salvador Allende. TEC's last performance in Chile was at the Chuquicamata mine, in the northern part of the country with the play Freedom, Freedom, an adaptation by Gac-Artigas of Flavio Rengel’s play about a group opposed to the 1973 coup d'état. The presentation began on September 10, 1973 and ended with a forum attended by David Baytelman, manager of the mine, mineworkers, and some political leaders on September 11, day in which the group was supposed to continue their tour to present the play for the workers of the nitrate mine.

In 1968 Gac-Artigas traveled to Bulgaria to participate in the Democratic Youth World Festival and to Czechoslovakia invited by the government of the time to observe the changes introduced during the Prague Spring. Upon his return to Chile, he dropped out of college and embarked on a trip through Latin America performing in different countries with a documentary theater play called Poetry Mail which included poems by established writers, local writers and songs intertwined with current events from national and local newspapers. With Poetry Mail, Gac-Artigas traversed South America from his native Chile to Bogota, Colombia. In Colombia he worked with Enrique Buenaventura and Santiago Garcia and the Teatro La Candelaria in Bogotá.