Culture :
Chile has plenty of artists. During military government, most
of them had to flea and were revealed worldwide. For example: the
musical bands IIlapu, Inti Illimani, Congreso, all still releasing records. Nowadays, the
United States produce and release many Chilean artists’records, such as La Ley, Los
Tres, Lucybell, Myriam Hernandez, etc.
Chilean
litterature from « el Fin Del Mundo » is a fascinating subject. We will
highlight both Nobel Prizes winners Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda
in 1971 (at this time, he was the Chilean Ambassador in France) but also
numerous contemporary authors: Francisco Coloane : the Patagonian writer (passed
away in 2002), Antonio Skarmeta, Luis Sepulveda, Nicanor Parra, Marcela
Serrano, Isabel Allende, etc.
Here
below is a list of novels and guides we recommand:
- Francisco Coloane : Cape Horn
El Guanaco Blanco
Tierra del Fuego and many more...
- Luis Sepulveda : Atacama's Roses
A torero name
Patagonia Express
- Stefan Zweig : Magellan
Cinema : According to us some of the best Chilean movies of the last years, hava a look at them to know a bit more about Chile
- "La fiebre del Loco"
- "El chacotero
sentimental"
- "Machuca"
- "Cachimba"...