What is Jorge Edwards?
[[File:Edwards, Jorge.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Edwards at the Moscow [[Cervantes Institute]]. October 11, 2012]] '''Jorge Edwards Valdés''' ([[Santiago]], [[Chile]], 29 June 1931-[[Madrid]], 17 March 2023) was a [[Chile]]an novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to [[France]] during the first [[Sebastián Piñera]] presidency (2010-2014). In 2008 his novel ''La Casa de Dostoievsky'' won the prestigious [[Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa]], one of the richest literary prizes in the world, worth $200,000.<ref>[http://www.planetadelibros.com/premios-premio-iberoamericano-planeta-casa-de-america-de-narrativa-10.html Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701172902/http://www.planetadelibros.com/premios-premio-iberoamericano-planeta-casa-de-america-de-narrativa-10.html |date=2015-07-01 }}, official website</ref> In 1999, he was honored with the [[Miguel de Cervantes Prize]]. During the presidency of [[Salvador Allende]], Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], but only three months later, he was forced to leave the island. From this episode he wrote what is perhaps his most famous work, [[Persona non grata]] (1973), a memoir of his experiences as the Chilean ambassador to Cuba. Critical of the revolutionary socialist regime of Cuba's [[Fidel Castro]], the book created controversy among [[Latin America|Latin American]] writers. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Jorge}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:South American novelists]] [[Category:Chilean journalists]] [[Category:Writers from Santiago]] [[Category:Politicians from Santiago]] [[Category:Miguel de Cervantes Prize winners]] {{bio-stub}}