Miguel Castillo Didier
Miguel Ángel Castillo Didier (born 14 April 1934) is a Chilean hellenist, translator, scholar and musicologist.
Miguel Castillo Didier | |
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| Director of the Universidad de Chile Center for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies | |
| Assumed office 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Alejandro Zorbas Daskalakis |
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| Born | 14 April 1934 Chile |
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| Occupation | Researcher |
| Profession | Historian |
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Castillo Didier has been recognized as one of the most prestigious translators of the poets Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis and Nikos Kazantzakis, so his work is also recognized and awarded by the Greek government itself.[1]
Biography
He was born in Santiago.
During Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was exiled in Venezuela.[1]
On 27 March 2012, the State of Chile, on National Council for Culture and the Arts behalf, awarded Castillo the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit in National Library of Chile dependencies.[2][3][4]
Publications
- Grecia y Francisco de Miranda. Precursor, héroe y martir de las Independencia Hispanoamericana. Santiago: University of Chile, 1995.
See also
References
- Castillo Mora, Francisco (12 June 2021). "Miguel Castillo Didier, candidato a Premio Nacional de Humanidades: "En el exilio comprendí mejor a los poetas griegos"". El Mostrador. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- "Ministro Cruz-Coke entrega Orden al Mérito Artístico y Cultural Pablo Neruda a Miguel Castillo Didier". La Tercera. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- "Miguel Castillo Didier recibirá la Orden al Mérito Pablo Neruda". Radio Cooperativa. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- "Prof. Miguel Castillo Didier recibirá Orden al Mérito Pablo Neruda". University of Chile. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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