Delia Domínguez

• Name — Delia Domínguez • Birth Name — Delia Domínguez Mohr • Born — 11 August 1931 • Birthplace — Osorno, Chile • Died — 7 November 2022 • Occupation — Poet, writer • Notable Works — * El sol mira para atrás • Antología personal de poesía y prosa • Awards — Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit (2005)

A descendant of German settlers, Delia Domínguez lost her mother when she was five years old; Amalia Mohr died of tuberculosis in 1936. Her father, Luis Domínguez, a lawyer and judge, sent her and her brother Luis to boarding school. Delia studied at the Osorno School of German Nuns. About her time as a schoolgirl, Domínguez remembered that she felt "very lonely, so much that I talked with dogs and horses." She studied law at the University of Chile, but in her third year she abandoned this and dedicated herself to managing the family farm, Santa Amelia de Tacamó in Osorno. During her student days she suffered her second great tragedy (after the death of her mother): at age 20 she lost the love of her life. Delia recalled: Domínguez has contributed to several publications, particularly Paula (magazine) magazine, of which she was editor-in-chief and a literary critic. She has also been a host of some television art programs on Channel 9 of the University of Chile, and a panelist on the Radio Chilena program Carretera Cultural. She was director of the Chilean Writers Society and its magazine, Alerce. As a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, she occupied its 4th chair on 25 May 1992. Her incorporation speech was titled Señales de una Poesía Mestiza en el Paralelo 40° Sur. After her father died in 1970, she lived in the same house in the Santiago neighborhood of Providencia. Her poems have been translated into several languages, particularly German and English. She has been nominated for the National Prize for Literature four times. Her poetic work, as proposed by Juan Villegas, would correspond to a fusion between anti-poetry and poetry of the Lares, whose differentiating nuance is given by the absence and bitterness of anti-poetry and the magnification of the county space, in the case of laric poetry. Pablo Neruda, her friend, said of her: On 7 November 2022, Domínguez died at the age of 91.

• Simbólico retorno, 1955 • La tierra nace al canto, 1958 • Obertura siglo XX, 1961 • Parlamentos del hombre claro, 1963 • Contracanto, 1968 • El sol mira para atrás, 1973 • Pido que vuelva mi ángel, 1982 • La gallina castellana y otros huevos, 1995 • Huevos revueltos, 2000 • Clavo de olor, 2004 • El sol mira para atrás. Antología personal de poesía y prosa, Catalonia, 2008; incorporates poems from other books • Paralelo 40 Sur, anthology, with poems and unpublished stories, 2012