Jorge Edwards Valdés, (Santiago de Chile, Chile, 29th June, 1931), is a Chilean writer, diplomat and journalist.
Jorge Edwards studied in the Faculty of Law in the University of Chile and the Teaching Institute of the same university, later carrying out post-graduate study in the University of Princeton.
A career diplomat from 1957 to 1973, he occupied various posts: first secretary in Paris (1962-1967), counsellor in Lima (1970), head of Trade in Havana (1970-1971), and minister-counsellor in Paris (1971-1973).
Following the coup-d’état in Chile, in 1973, he left the Foreign Service and headed for Barcelona, where he worked as editor-in-chief for Difusora Internacional publishing house and advisor to Seix Barral.
He founded, and later presided, the Committee for the Protection of Free Speech, made up of writers and journalists. From 1994 to 1997, he was ambassador delegate to UNESCO in Paris, as a member of UNESCO’s executive council and President of the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations (1995-1997), the department responsible for human rights.
He has written numerous novels, short stories and essays. Some of his most acclaimed are El peso de la noche, La mujer imaginaria, El origen del mundo, Gente de la ciudad, Las máscaras, and Adios, poeta...
Several of his books have been translated into many languages. He contributes to various European and Latin-American newspapers, such as Le Monde, El País, Corriere della Sera, La Nación and Clarín, from Buenos Aires.
He is on the editing boards of Mexican periodicals Vuelta and Letras Libres, and has lectured on Latin-American issues in several universities across the US (Chicago, Georgetown etc.) and in Europe (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona).
In 2010 Edwards was granted Spanish citizenship by King Juan Carlos
He is currently ambassador to Chile in France.
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