
Raul Zurita
Author · 15 books
Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. In 1982 five airplanes wrote his poem “La Vida Nueva” in the sky above New York City, and in 1993 he had the phrase “NEITHER PAIN NOR FEAR” bulldozed into the Atacama Desert in a permanent, two-mile-long installation, visible only from above. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.
Books

Poemas de amor
2007

La experiencia del amor
2023

Purgatory
A Bilingual Edition
1979

Guárdame en ti
2019

Dreams for Kurosawa
2012

Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido
1985

INRI
2003

Anteparadise
1982

ZURITA
2011

La Vida Nueva
1994

Un mar de piedras
2018

Verás auroras como sangre
2021

Tu vida rompiéndose
2015

Country of Planks
2015

Sky Below
Selected Works
2016