1. Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel was a Chilean essayist, chronicler, performer and novelist.
25 Facts About Pedro Lemebel
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Pedro Lemebel was openly gay and known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective.
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Pedro Lemebel was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
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Pedro Lemebel died of laryngeal cancer on 23 January 2015 in Santiago, Chile.
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Pedro Lemebel attended an industrial school of carpentry and metal forging at the Industrial de Hombres de La Legua High School and later studied plastic art at University of Chile's Art School.
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Pedro Lemebel subsequently became a high school art teacher but was let go based on the presumption of his homosexuality.
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Pedro Lemebel attended writing workshops to hone his skills and network with other writers, his first writing recognition was in 1982, when he won an award for his short story, Porque el tiempo esta cerca.
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Pedro Lemebel entered the meeting in high heels and with makeup on his face depicting a hammer and sickle extending from his mouth to his left eyebrow.
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In 1987, Pedro Lemebel co-founded a group with Francisco Casas, poet, artist and student of literature.
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Casas and Pedro Lemebel posed as Buster Keaton, Marilyn Monroe, the sisters from Garcia Lorca's La Casa de Bernarda Alba and other icons of the Chilean gay community.
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In 1994, Pedro Lemebel participated in the stonewall festival in New York, an LGBT pride festival.
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Pedro Lemebel returned to writing in the 1990s starting with a series of urban chronicles that were published in Chilean newspapers, and magazines and read on the radio.
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In 1995 and 1996, Pedro Lemebel wrote two books in a chronicle and hybrid literary style, a combination of reportage, memoir, public address, fiction and socio-political historical analysis.
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Pedro Lemebel was given a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship in 1999 for his literary accomplishments leading to increase appearances in forums and seminars in Chile and US.
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Pedro Lemebel gained international recognition with his novel Tengo miedo torero which was his first book translated into English.
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On September 4,2013, Pedro Lemebel was awarded the "Premio Jose Donoso," which he dedicated to his mother, the deceased Gladys Marin, and his readers belonging to the working class.
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Pedro Lemebel's works are usually tragic-comedies and aggressive, in constant rejection of right wing politics and the Chilean upper class.
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Pedro Lemebel died on January 23,2015, in Santiago, Chile, of laryngeal cancer.
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Pedro Lemebel's remains are buried in the Metropolitan Cemetery of Santiago.
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Pedro Lemebel is well known for his influence in the fight for homosexual rights, his work as a writer, and his strong political side.
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Pedro Lemebel was much more than a writer; he was a free man, an artist, a political and popular icon, but more than anything a rebel and a voice for the homosexual community.
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Pedro Lemebel was able to envisage a hidden reality of homosexuals; he was able to unmask the violence of which homosexuals were victims in Chile.
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The importance of Pedro Lemebel is not only value for his talent as a writer, but as a person full of defiance in a conservative and machista country.
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Pedro Lemebel was heavily connected with the color red, but not with the red of the political party, but with the red of blood.
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Pedro Lemebel was profiled in the 2019 documentary film Lemebel, by filmmaker Joanna Reposi Garibaldi.