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Antonio Skármeta (Spanish: [anˈtonjo esˈkaɾmeta]; born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean novelist, screenwriter, and diplomat, best known for his novel Ardiente paciencia (1985; Burning Patience) and for the film adaptations it inspired. Skármeta was the grandson of Yugoslav immigrants.
Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic) is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia.
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Sep 27, 2018 · Skármeta was one of the first to propose a poetic style that showed the different aesthetics of the boom and the emerging post-boom writers. Ferreira references the Skármeta’s words: “Al fin y al cabo, es su propia vida la cosa más cercana que cada escritor tiene para echar mano”.
Antonio Skármeta achieved worldwide renown with The Postman (Il Postino). His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide. He lives in Santiago, Chile.
Antonio Skármeta is one of Latin America’s most revered novelists. Skármeta received international acclaim when his 1985 novel El cartero de Neruda became the Oscar-nominated film Il Postino.
Antonio Skármeta was born in 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He is a writer and actor, known for Ardiente paciencia (1983), The Postman (1994) and No (2012).
