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ARIEL DORFMAN
has been hailed by the
Washington Post
as a “world novelist of the first order” and by
Newsweek
as “one of the greatest Latin American novelists.” A Chilean expatriate, now professor at Duke University, Dorfman has seen his works translated into more than thirty languages and his plays performed in over one hundred countries. His play
Death and the Maiden
was made into a film by Roman Polanski. His most recent books are
Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
(Seven Stories Press, 2003) and
Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North
(National Geographic Books, 2004). His novels
Widows, Konfidenz
, and
The Nanny and the Iceberg
have just been reissued. Two of Dorfman’s new plays will appear in 2005,
The Other Side
in London’s West End, and
Purgatorio
on Broadway. He lives with his wife, Angélica, in Durham, North Carolina.