Gustavo Gac-Artigas
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Gustavo Gac-Artigas
"i write to return
to the country i should never have left"
- from: intentions
Gustavo Gac-Artigas is a Chilean writer, poet, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, living in the U.S. since 1992. Previously, he was a political refugee in France, having been expelled from Chile after his imprisonment during the military coup of 1973. After an unsuccessful attempt to return to Chile under Pinochet’s regime and a year spent in Latin America searching for a place to live and create, he was sent into a second exile, this time in Rotterdam.
He is a corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), a member of PEN Chile, the Academia Universalis Poetarum, and the Academia Tomitana of Constanza.
He regularly contributes opinion articles to Le Monde Diplomatique (Chilean edition), Impacto Latino (NY), El Desconcierto (Chile), TodoLiteratura (Spain), and Letralia. His poetry has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies across the United States, France, and Latin America and has been partially translated into English, French, and Romanian.
As a poet, he has participated in international festivals and poetry readings in Paris, the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, and Costa Rica, among other countries.
Publications
Si lo hubiera sabido… Valparaíso Ediciones. Madrid, Bogotá, 2024.
Y aún queda espacio en mi mochila. Puerto Rico. Forthcoming.
Confieso que escribo / I Confess That I Write. Colección Antípodas, Ediciones HEBEL, Chile / Cross-Cultural Communications, NY, 2024, translated by Andrea G. Labinger and Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
POŞTA POEZIEI/El correo de la poesía. Rumania. Editorial Kult, 2024, translated by Carmen Bulzan.
Invocación de confines/Invocarea limitei. Chile, Independently Poetry, 2024, translated by Carmen Bulzan.
Un poète dans la ville /un poeta en la ciudad. Paris, L’Harmattan, 2024, translated by Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
Desde el fondo del tintero: Dalibá, la brujita del Caribe (París, 1982), ExIliadas (Rotterdam, 1988). HLCCNY, 2023.
hombre de américa/man of the americas. Nueva York Poetry Press, NY, 2022, translated by Priscilla Gac-Artigas and Andrea G. Labinger.
deseos / longings / j’aimerais tant. Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2020, translated by Andrea G. Labinger, English, and Priscilla Gac-Artigas, French.
Awards
“Ossi di seppia Award” to a collection of poems from a foreign author. Italy, 2025.
Script: CANTO A LA MEMORIA: A POETIC JOURNEY, AN ODE TO MEMORY. Winner in two categories: “Best Feature Script” and "Best True Story Script" (World Film Festival-France. 2025) Official Selection: Hispanic International Film Festival. 2025.
Award Coroana de Aur Ovidius, Tomis-Constanza 2024.
Award Mihai Eminescu XIII International Poetry Festival, Craiova, Romania, 2024
Honored Poet of the 17th Hispanic/Latino Book Fair Queens, 2023
Proclamation from the New York City Council for his outstanding achievements in literature, 2023
Citation from the New York State Assembly for his literary career and for his work to keep Spanish alive in the United States, 2023
Finalist, International Book Award 2023: category “contemporary poetry”, for the collection hom¬bre de américa/man of the americas, Nueva York Poetry Press 2022, translated by Andrea G. La¬binger and Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
Honorary Mention International Latino Book Award 2024 for hom¬bre de américa/man of the Americas and Confieso que escribo/ I Confess that I Write.
Proclamation from the Municipality of Turrialba, Costa Rica, as a Distinguished Poet 2023
Finalist International Latino Book Award 2018: category “best fiction book in translation Spanish to English” for Y todos éramos actores, un siglo de luz y sombra (2016) /And All of Us Were Actors, A Century of Light and Shadow translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Poetry Park Award, Rotterdam, 1989 for “Dr. Zamenhofstraat”
International Poetry Festivals (selection)
Poetry Park Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 1989
Vasos comunicantes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1999
Centro Cultural Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris, 2019
The Americas Poetry Festival, (TAPFNY), NY 2019 2021, 2022
The Earth is Our Home, India, 2022
Feria Internacional del Libro, New York City, FILNYC, 2022
Poetas del Mundo, Chiapas, México, 2022• Valle del Rio Grande International Poetry Festival, 2022
IX Festival Internacional de Poesía, (FIPA) Aguacatán, Guatemala, 2022
Feria Internacional del Libro, NJ, 2022
New York City Poetry Festival, 2023
Feria Internacional del libro LACUHE, 2023
La Sorbona, Paris, 2023
Festival Internacional de Poesía Turrialba, FIP-Turrialba, Costa Rica, 2023
Feria Internacional del Libro Hispano/Latino, Queens, NY, 2022 y Keynote Speaker, 2023
XIII Festival Mondial de Poésie Mihai Eminescu, Craiova, June 2024
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