Roberto Ampuero | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile | |
| In office March 11, 2018 – June 13, 2019 | |
| Appointed by | Sebastián Piñera |
| Preceded by | Heraldo Muñoz |
| Succeeded by | Teodoro Ribera |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 February 1953 Valparaíso, Chile |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Website | elcasoneruda.cl |
Roberto Ampuero (born 20 February 1953 in Valparaíso, Chile)[1] is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019.[2] His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo (Book of the Year in Chile, 2003 and the bestseller of the year in Chile[3])) and Pasiones Griegas (chosen as the Best Spanish Novel in China, 2006). His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English.[4] In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions.[5] Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.[6][7] He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio.[8] Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.[9]
- ^ "Fiuxy.bz".
- ^ "Cambio de gabinete: Roberto Ampuero deja Cancillería enfrentado con la oposición y duramente criticado por su manejo de la política exterior".
- ^ El sendero luminoso de Roberto Ampuero Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine en La Nación, por el lunes 23 de febrero de 2004
- ^ Datos biográficos en Antartica.cl
- ^ La No-romántica novela de amor Archived 2008-06-15 at the Wayback Machine por Željka Lovrenčić, martes 25 de diciembre de 2007
- ^ Faculty and Staff Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine en el sitio del Departament of Spanish and Portuguese en la Universidad de Iowa
- ^ Los profesores chilenos que más influyen en EE.UU. en Revista Qué Pasa
- ^ Sección de columnas de Roberto Ampuero en El Mercurio.
- ^ S.A.P, El Mercurio (June 7, 2013). "Roberto Ampuero y Bruno Baranda asumirán como nuevos ministros en Cultura y Desarrollo Social". Emol. Retrieved June 25, 2023.