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Óscar Hahn

Óscar Hahn
Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda al poeta chileno Oscar Hahn.jpg
Chilean President awarding the Pablo Neruda Prize to Óscar Hahn (right), 12/07/11
Born Óscar Arturo Hahn Garcés
July 5, 1938
Iquique, Chile
Nationality Chilean
Occupation Writer and poet

Óscar Arturo Hahn Garcés (born 1938 in Iquique, Chile) is a Chilean writer and poet, and a member of the literary generation of the 1960s. Hahn has won multiple distinguished awards, notably the Chilean National Prize for Literature and the Pablo Neruda Iberoamericano Prize.

Oscar Hahn is the son of Ralph Hahn Valdés and Enriqueta Garcés Sánchez. He lost his father at the young age of 4 years old on March 28, 1943. His first traces to poetry began in his adolescence in Rancagua, Chile. After falling in love during a childhood relationship, Hahn felt compelled to write his first poems. He received his primary and secondary education in Iquique, Chile at the Don Bosco Salesian College and the Lyceum of Men. Hahn later attended the University of Chile where he graduated as a professor of Spanish.

In 1959, while at the University of Chile, he won the Student Federation of Chile's Prize in Poetry. In 1961, at only 22 years old, he won the Society of Chilean Writers' Alerce Prize for the work This Black Rose (Esta Rosa Negra). In 1967 he won the Unique Prize of the First Contest in Northern Poetry of the University of Chile for the (then) regional seat of Antofagasta.

He studied and set himself to the University of Chile's Curriculum in the Teaching of Literature while in residence at Arica. In 1972 he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the University of Iowa, US and was named a member of the International Writers' Program there.

In 1972, when he returned to Chile, he took a job as Adjunct Professor at the University of Chile, Arica. In the next year, 1973, his life would change dramatically, due to political developments in his home country; on September 11 of that year, during the Chilean coup of 1973 he was detained by the newly installed military government of Augusto Pinochet, which had displaced the progressive government of the democratically elected leader Salvador Allende. Hahn's book, Love's Disease was the only poetry book that was banned during the dictatorship.


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