Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, and human rights activist born in Buenos Aires, whose works engage with the politically vibrant Latin American literary tradition of Pablo Neruda and Gabriel García Márquez. He has been a professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University since 1985 and became a U.S. citizen in 2004. His books have been published in over fifty languages and his plays performed in more than one hundred countries.