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Sergio Badilla Castillo

1947 - Today

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Sergio Badilla Castillo (born November 30, 1947, in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergio Badilla Castillo has received more than 19,555 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergio Badilla Castillo is the 2,059th most popular writer (up from 2,693rd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Chile (up from 46th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chilean Writer.

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Notable Works

Poemas transreales y algunos evangelios
Ok Atacama
An city-emporium in the middle of the Atacama desert where the whole history of humanity is deployed from the Roman Empire to the present days In this amazing poetic masterpiece characters do not have time in this endless paracronía more than a mythic presence, coupled by the threads of this supreme master fable weaver as Badilla Castillo is.
2010
Saga Nórdica
Terrenalis
1988

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sergio Badilla Castillo ranks 2,059 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucilius Junior, Philip Kerr, Clive Barker, Vassilis Vassilikos, Mago, and Catherine Breillat. After him are Marcellinus Comes, Keigo Higashino, Kyōka Izumi, Oscar Milosz, Honoré d'Urfé, and Jørgen Moe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sergio Badilla Castillo ranks 177. Before him are Kōzō Okamoto, Aleksander Krupa, Jaume Cabré, Aad de Mos, Greg Lake, and James Dyson. After him are Alain Connes, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Mario Aurelio Poli, Godfrey Chitalu, Mary Simon, and Ben Cross.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Sergio Badilla Castillo ranks 35 out of 321. Before him are Orlando Letelier (1932), Francisco Varela (1946), Humberto Maturana (1928), Arturo Vidal (1987), Pedro Pascal (1975), and Nicanor Parra (1914). After him are Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Lucía Hiriart (1923), René Schneider (1913), and Gabriel González Videla (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Sergio Badilla Castillo ranks 7. Before him are Pablo Neruda (1904), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Roberto Bolaño (1953), and Nicanor Parra (1914). After him are Antonio Skármeta (1940), José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), Alberto Hurtado (1901), and Francisco Coloane (1910).

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