What is Pedro Lemebel?
[[File:Lemebel.jpg|thumb|Pedro Lemebel in 2005]] '''Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel''' (21 November 1952 – 23 January 2015) was an [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]] [[Chile]]an essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He was known for writing books about Chilean culture based on the mind of a [[homosexual]]. He was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014. Lemebel died of cancer of the [[larynx]] on January 23, 2015, aged 62.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latercera.com/noticia/cultura/2015/01/1453-613834-9-muere-el-escritor-nacional-pedro-lemebel-a-los-62-anos.shtml|title=Muere el escritor nacional Pedro Lemebel a los 62 años|author=Grupo Copesa|date=23 January 2015|work=latercera.com|accessdate=23 January 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111615/http://www.latercera.com/noticia/cultura/2015/01/1453-613834-9-muere-el-escritor-nacional-pedro-lemebel-a-los-62-anos.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lemebel, Pedro}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from throat cancer]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Chile]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:LGBT novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Santiago]] {{bio-stub}}