with Ariel Dorfman on Dec 13, 2004
with Ariel Dorfman on Jun 1, 2001
Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, and human rights activist. From 1970 to 1973, he was part of the administration of president Salvador Allende. He was forced into exile following the bloody military coup of 1973 in which General Augusto Pinochet came to power. Since 1985 he has taught at Duke University.
Dorfman has written fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, the trials of exile. His most famous play, ‘Death and the Maiden’, was made into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley. He has written extensively about his extradition in books such as ‘How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic’ and ‘Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet’.
Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Dorfman
