Daniel Francisco Rojas Pachas (born 1983)[1] is a Chilean novelist,[2] editor, poet,[3] and academic.[4] He currently lives and works in Belgium,[5] where he is developing a research on the work of Enrique Lihn[6] and Roberto Bolaño at KU Leuven university.[7] Rojas Pachas is known for his novel Random[8] and his academic work dedicated to Latin-American authors.[9] His 2008 academic work Realidades Dialogantes examines the writing of Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Bolaño, Ernesto Sabato, Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Miguel Ángel Asturias.[10] In 2015 he was awarded the prize for Cultural Management of Arts and Heritage by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures and Arts and Heritage.[11]
Daniel Rojas Pachas | |
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 Rojas Pachas at the FENAL 2018 | |
| Born | March 15, 1983 Lima, Perú |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Alma mater | KU_Leuven University_of_Tarapacá |
| Notable works | Random (2014), Video killed the radio star (2016) |
He studied literature at the University of Tarapacá on the northern border of Chile.[12] In that region of Chile, he founded the publishing house Cinosargo[13] and developed the transnational poetry festival Tea Party.[14] In 2016, he moved to Mexico to study a postgraduate degree in Hispanic American Literature[15] and developed a publishing activity that represented Chile in international spaces such as Finland,[16] Italy,[17] China,[18] Switzerland, the Frankfurt International Book Fair,[19] and the Guadalajara Book Fair.[20]
In 2013, Pachas was anthologized along with Alejandro Zambra, Nona Fernández and Mike Wilson in the book CL textos de frontera from the Alberto Hurtado University.[21] In 2014 it was part of the Chronicles book: "Ciudad Fritanga" together with authors such as Lina Meruane and Jorge Baradit. The reviewers stated: "The writer and editor Daniel Rojas Pachas (Cristo Barroco, Tea Party), who manages to hit the nail on the head with an experiential prose, dialogues with Arica.[22]
In 2021 He was anthologized in a contemporary Latin American story book "Bajo la soledad del Neon"[23] together with Guadalupe Nettel and Liliana Colanzi. In 2023 he presented at the International book fair of Guadalajara his essay dedicated to Manuel Scorza in the book Olafo y los amigos[24] published in Mexico by the Cultural Institute of the Government of Guanajuato.
Works
editNovels
edit- Random (Narrativa Punto Aparte 2014, Chile)[25][8][26] ISBN 978-956-9091-07-0
- Tremor (La Liga 2014, Chile)[27] ISBN 978-956-9300-04-2
- Video Killed the Radio Star (Narrativa Punto Aparte 2016, Chile)[28] ISBN 978-956-9091-18-6
Academic monographs
edit- Realidades Dialogantes: Lectura de cinco autores latinoamericanos generacionales (Fondart 2008)[10] ISBN 978-956-332-822-6
- El arte de la cháchara: la poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn (Los Perros Románticos 2023, Chile)[29] ISBN 978-956-9594-54-0
Poetry volumes
edit- Gramma (Cinosargo 2009)[30] ISBN 978-956-332-823-3
- SOMA (Literal Ediciones 2012, México)[31][32] ISBN 978-607-9088-26-2
Other works
edit- Carne (LUMA 2017, Zúrich - Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets, and Kenneth Goldsmith) ISBN 978-1-365-97699-5
- Cristo Barroco (Mago Editores 2017, Chile) ISBN 978-956-317-406-9
- Allá fuera está ese lugar que le dio forma a mi habla[33] (Navaja 2019, Chile) ISBN 978-956-09269-0-6
- Rancor[34] (Los Perros Románticos 2018, Chile) ISBN 978-956-9594-20-5
- Mecanismo destinado al simulacro[35] (Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima 2022)
- Morgue y otros poemas: Translated by Daniel Rojas Pachas (Sauvage Atelier 2024, México) ISBN 978-607-59630-7-5
References
edit- ^ "KU Leuven who's who - Daniel Francisco Rojas Pachas (Author's review at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)". www.kuleuven.be. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Mexican, Enciclopedy. "Daniel Rojas Pachas - Detalle del autor - Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México - FLM (Daniel Rojas Pachas - Author Details - Encyclopedia of Literature in Mexico - FLM)". www.elem.mx (in Spanish). Mexico. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Parra, Marcelo. "El imaginario de Daniel Rojas Pachas - Fundación La Fuente (The imaginary of Daniel Rojas Pachas - Fundación La Fuente)". www.fundacionlafuente.cl (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Chilean, Memory. "Memoria Chilena (Memory of Chile - Reference to Rojas Pachas' writing in the Chilean portal of bibliographic memory of the Ministry of Education and the Directorate of Archives and Museums)". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ KU, Leuven. "Nuevas visiones de la literatura latinoamericana (Meeting of poets and translators organized by Daniel Rojas Pachas in Belgium, in coordination with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.)". Faculteit Letteren. Belgium. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Balmaceda, Arte joven. "Presentación de 'El Arte de la Cháchara': Un encuentro con Daniel Rojas Pachas – Balmaceda Arte Joven" (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ FRIS. "Daniel Francisco Rojas Pachas | FRIS onderzoeksportaal (Flanders Academic Portal in Belgium with the academic work of Daniel Rojas Pachas in Europe)". www.researchportal.be. Belgium. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b Espinosa, Patricia. "Infamia sin control". Las Últimas Noticias.
- ^ "SPK - Bibliothek des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts (References to Rojas Pachas' academic work at German universities)". lhiai.gbv.de. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b "Libros recibidos_08 – Critica.cl" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Se entregaron los Premios Regionales de Cultura 2015 de Arica y Parinacota (Press release from the portal of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts and Heritage of Chile)". www.cultura.gob.cl (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Espinoza, Pablo. "Daniel Rojas Pachas participó en libro Chile: Travesías Culturales – Universidad de Tarapacá" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Pachas, Daniel Rojas (2003). "Cinosargo Ediciones". MGC / Revista de Gestión Cultural (in Spanish) (1).
- ^ Guerrero, Pedro Pablo. "BND Visor : "Tea Party" en Arica, una aventura de frontera [artículo] Pedro Pablo Guerrero". www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "El arte de la cháchara: la poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn (Academic Portal of the National Corporation of Science and Technology of Mexico)". www.repositorionacionalcti.mx (in Spanish). Mexico. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Crisólogo, Roxana (2023-12-26). "Daniel Rojas Pachas editor and poet in Finland (Note on the participation of Daniel Rojas Pachas as a poet and editor in Helsinki at the University and in the Sivuvalo program for translation and cultural diffusion.)". sivuvalo platform. Finland. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Edizioni Ca' Foscari". edizionicafoscari.unive.it. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
- ^ Guerrero, Pedro Pablo. "EyN: La llegada de los libros chinos al mercado chileno". www.economiaynegocios.cl. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Frankfurt, Buchmesse. "Frankfurt Rights (Portal of the Frankfurt International Book Fair with information from Cinosargo Ediciones and Daniel Rojas Pachas.)". frankfurtrights.com. Germany. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Herrero, Lorenzo (2023-11-20). "Chile llegará a Guadalajara con una importante propuesta cultural y un nutrido grupo de autores". Publishnews (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ .cl Textos de frontera (in European Spanish). Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. 2012. ISBN 978-956-8421-97-7.
- ^ "Viva Leer Copec - Cuentos, Bibliotecas, Colecciones (Note on the book Ciudad Fritanga)". vivaleercopec.cl (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Kanahuaty, Christian Jiménez (2021-06-18). Bajo la soledad del neón - Antología de cuento contemporáneo de América Latina (in Spanish). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. ISBN 978-9978-77-539-4.
- ^ Rosete, Erika (2023-11-28). "A 40 años del accidente de avión que mató a Jorge Ibargüengoitia: "Es como el eslabón perdido de la cultura latinoamericana"". El País México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Toledo, Benjamín Isidro Guzmán (2019-06-30). "TRANSGRESIÓN, ALGORITMOS Y EPIFANÍA EN RANDOM (2014) DE DANIEL ROJAS PACHAS: LOS HITOS DE UNA NUEVA POÉTICA NARRATIVA PARA LA LITERATURA DEL NORTE CHILENO". Revista de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish). 28 (42). Chile: 64–88. doi:10.61303/07172257.v28i42.139. ISSN 0717-2257.
- ^ "Historias como esquirlas". Narrativa Punto Aparte (in Spanish). 2014-07-03. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "El tremor de la novela. "Tremor" d Daniel Rojas Pachas (La Liga de la Justicia, 2013) Por Juan Manuel Silva Barandica". letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Espinoza, Patricia (23 June 2017). "Una pequeña batalla". Las Últimas Noticias.
- ^ adminv&co (2023-07-25). "Enrique Lihn y la poética de lo abigarrado, por Daniel Rojas Pachas". Vallejo & Co. | Revista Cultural - POESÍA - FOTOGRAFÍA - NARRATIVA - CINE - MÚSICA - TEATRO - ARTES - PLÁSTICAS - CREACIÓN - CAJÓN DE SASTRE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Gramma de Daniel Rojas Pachas y la existencia como textualidad hiperconsciente. Por Adriana Guaringa Robles". letras.mysite.com (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "SOMA (Ediciones Literal – México 2012) de Daniel Rojas Pachas. Por Carmen Berenguer". letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "SOMA. Daniel Rojas Pachas. Por Elvira Hernández". letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ Malebrán, Juan. "Allá afuera está ese lugar que le dio forma a mi habla de Daniel Rojas Pachas. Por Juan Malebrán". letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Amarga, La Ubre (2023-05-08). "«Una novela hecha pedazos (y vuelta a armar)» sobre «Rancor» de Daniel Rojas Pachas por Pablo Rumel". La Ubre Amarga (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Benítez, Luis (2022-05-28). "Reseña de "Mecanismo destinado al simulacro", de Daniel Rojas Pachas, por Luis Benítez". Letralia, Tierra de Letras (in Spanish). Spain. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
Further reading
edit- "Daniel Rojas Pachas: "Todos los libros que he escrito y publicado responden a un afán exploratorio con respecto al lenguaje y los tipos de discurso"". Narrativa Punto Aparte (in Spanish). 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2024-11-03.