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Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Ariel Dorfman, born in 1942 in Argentina, is a writer of novels, plays, poetry. He has also written about the impact of political repression and terrorism. His family spent the first years of his life in the US, returning to Chile in 1954. He was forced to leave Chile after the military coup of 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected president Savador Allende; he settled in the US to teach and write until the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990. He lives part of the year in Chile and part of the year in the US. Death and the Maiden, perhaps his best known work, was written in 1990 and premiered on stage in London in 1991.