His work is characterized by a United States/Chilean hybridity, with constant cross-references to the respective popular cultures of the two nations. His books include Sobredosis, Mala Onda, Tinta Roja and Las Peliculas de mi Vida. Mala Onda has been highly acclaimed; the novel deals with a young man living in Santiago during the 1980s. Tinta Roja has been made into a film. Las Peliculas de mi Vida is a semi-autobiographical novel about a Chilean seismologist who grew up in California and later returned to Chile who describes his life with references to films. Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth. ...
In 1999 Time called Fuguet one of the 50 most important Latin Americans for the next millineum. Jump to: navigation, search 8:17 am, August 6, 1945, Japanese time. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...
In 2005 he directed Se Arrienda which he co-wrote with Francisco Ortega.
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Se Arrienda - Se Arrienda official site (in spanish).
Chilean novelist AlbertoFuguet leaped to the forefront of contemporary Latin American literature as an editor of McOndo, a 1996 anthology of short stories from a new generation of South American writers, all under the age of 35.
Fuguet discussed the Free Trade Area of the Americas from an office in a Manhattan skyscraper, just before launching a promotional tour for his second novel to be published in English, The Movies of My Life.
AlbertoFuguet: It started as a joke, but it was actually an ironic commentary on the way the European and American "first world" visualizes Latin America.
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