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  • My Tender Matador

    My Tender Matador - Paperback

    My Tender Matador - Paperback

    By Pedro Lemebel
  • A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

    A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays - Paperback

    A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays - Paperback

    By Pedro Lemebel

About Pedro Lemebel

Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's José Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is best known for his crónicas and one novel, My Tender Matador, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda.