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Person · Open Library
- Born
- Valparaíso, Chile (30 de noviembre de 1947)
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Poemas transreales y algunos evangelios
- Saga Nórdica
- Terrenalis
- Ok Atacama
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-11-30 ) November 30, 1947 (age 78) , Valparaíso , Chile
- Occupation
- Poet, journalist
- Language
- Spanish ( Chilean )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sergio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Valparaíso
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Stockholm University
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Image
- Badilla, Sergio -FILSA 20181105 fRF11.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1947-11-30
- second family name in Spanish name
- Castillo
- Commons category
- Sergio Badilla
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Encyclopedic overview
Sergio Badilla Castillo (born November 30, 1947) is a Chilean poet who is the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish poets, Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Paavo Haavikko, Pentti Saarikoski and the Swedes Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer and Lars Gustafsson.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sergio Badilla Castillo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.