Renato Cárdenas
Renato Cárdenas Álvarez (Calen, Dalcahue, 2 August 1949 - Ancud, 14 April 2022) was a Chilean historian, writer, poet and teacher. He was part of the cultural movement Taller Literario Aumen, of which he was one of the founders together with Carlos Trujillo in 1975. Cárdenas studied pedagogy in the University of Chile and the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Valparaíso.
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- Name
- Renato Cárdenas
- Born
- 2 August 1949
- Died
- 14 April 2022
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- Chile
- Languages
- Spanish
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Renato Cárdenas, a philologist, was born in 1949 in Chiloé.
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Later he obtained a scholarship to study communication at London University. He was member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua and academic director of the Archivo Bibliográfico y Documental de Chiloé.
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• Name — Renato Cárdenas • Born — 2 August 1949 • Died — 14 April 2022 • Occupation — Poet • Alma Mater — University of Chile
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- 1.Registro civil, Certificado de Defunción, inscripción 146, 2022
- 2.Premio a la Cultura Tradicional Margot Loyola 2020 reconoce a representantes aymara, mapuche y chilote.
- 3.Ossa, Paulina. El incansable Renato Cárdenas Álvarez.
- 4.Permanece la magia de Renato Cárdenas.
- 5.Renato Cárdenas. Pisagua: semillas de la memoria.
- 6.Ariz Castillo, Yenny. La loba y la luciérnaga. La heterogeneidad del discurso poético de Rosabetty Muñoz y Sonia Caicheo. 0717-6848.
- 7.Carrasco, Iván. Carlos Trujillo: poesía de la dificultad de vivir. 0718-2295.
- 8.Poesía chilena. (Miradas. Enfoques. Apuntes).
- 9.Carrasco M., Iván. Literatura intercultural chilena: proyectos actuales. 0718-2295.
- 10.Archivos de la memoria en Chile. Investigación, catastro y recopilación de patrimonio tangible e intangible sobre derechos humanos en la Región de Los Ríos y Región de Los Lagos.
- 11.An Englisman in Patagonia.
- 12.Subsecretaría de Derechos Humanos. Egaña 60. Complemento de investigación histórica para actualización de guion de Sitio de Memoria en Puerto Montt.
- 13.Comisión Chilena de Derechos Humanos. Informe N.° 39 Situación de los derechos humanos en Chile. Marzo de 1985.
- 14.Renato Cárdenas Álvarez.
- 15."La isla ya no será lo mismo": Confirman la muerte del escritor, poeta e historiador Renato Cárdenas.
- 16.En Calen serán sepultados esta tarde los restos de Renato Cárdenas Álvarez.
- 17.«Chiloé y su cultura están de duelo»: las sentidas reacciones tras la muerte del destacado escritor, historiador y poeta Renato Cárdenas.
- 18.Héctor Muñoz. Antonio Becerro: «Ha quedado un vacío. Chiloé no será lo mismo sin Renato Cárdenas».
- 19.Hasta siempre Renato… Chiloé no te olvidará.
- 20.[Homenaje] Renato Cárdenas Álvarez, tripulante del Caleuche.
- 21.¡Llueven lágrimas en Chiloé!.
- 22.Renato Cárdenas es el primer chilote en ganar el Premio Margot Loyola.
- 23.Premios Regionales de Cultura reconocieron labor de 5 artistas y cultores de Los Lagos.
- 24.institutodechile.cl. Académicos correspondientes en Chile.
- 25.Faúndez V., Edson. No sólo por las noches navegan los fantasmas. Nada queda atrás y la poesía de Carlos Alberto Trujillo. 0717-6848.
- 26.Carrasco, Iván. Tendencias de la poesía chilena en el siglo XX. 28. 0210-4547.
- 27.Archivo Bibliográfico y Documental de Chiloé. Presentación.
- 28.Tesis para optar al grado de Profesor de Lenguaje y Comunicación.
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