![]() ![]() Lemebel attended writing workshops to hone his skills and network with other writers, his first writing recognition was in 1982, when he won an award for his short story, Porque el tiempo está cerca. ![]() ![]() He subsequently became a high school art teacher but was let go based on the presumption of his homosexuality. He attended an industrial school of carpentry and metal forging at the Industrial de Hombres de La Legua High School and later studied plastic art at University of Chile's Art School. In the late 1980s, he chose to be identified by his mother's surname, Lemebel, as his choice for surname instead of his father's (Mardones), as is the norm in most Latin American countries. Lemebel was born in El Zanjón de la Aguada, a poor neighborhood in Santiago on the banks of Zanjón de la Aguada, an irrigation canal that flows into the Mapocho river to the family of Pedro Mardones Paredes and Violeta Lemebel. He died of laryngeal cancer on 23 January 2015 in Santiago, Chile. ![]() He was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014. He was openly gay and known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective. Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel (21 November 1952 – 23 January 2015) was a Chilean essayist, chronicler, performer and novelist. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mardones and the second or maternal family name is Lemebel. ![]()
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