Roberto Ampuero

Quick Facts

Full Name	Roberto Ampuero
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1953(1953-02-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	Valparaíso
Country	Chile
Birth City	Valparaíso Region
Horoscope	Aquarius

Roberto Ampuero Biography

Roberto Ampuero is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 20, 1953 in Valparaíso, Valparaíso Region, Chile. Roberto Ampuero Espinoza, the son of Roberto Ampuero Brule (and Angelica Espinoza) was born in Valparaiso on March 23, 1953. His family was a “portena middle-class family that leaned to the right”, his maternal grandmother was French, and his father worked in the USA’s exterior service of information during World War II. He began his education at the David Trumbull Presbyterian School. Later, he attended the Deutsche Schule of Valparaiso (DSV), as his parents thought it was an “excellent private school near his house.” There he also learned how to write and read German. There he studied for 12 years and graduated in 1971 with a 5.8 GPA (from 1-7). He says that he wouldn’t have met his wife and lived in Germany if it weren’t for the school. DSV taught me how to be serious and disciplined in my work, not waste time, to take tough situations in stride, be frugal, simple and to live in other cultures.” He also thanks DSV for helping to make him more familiar with writers like Mann, Schiller, Brecht, Mann, and Mann.

He met Margarita Flores in Eastern Germany, the daughter of Fernando Flores Ibarra. They moved to Cuba together. In 1974, they arrived on the island and were married that year. This marriage lasted only until 1977.

After five years in La Habana, in 1979 he returned to East Germany. There he attended the “Escuela Juvenil Superior Wilhelm Pieck” (JHSWP), nicknamed the “Red Monastery,” next to Berlin and the Bogensee lake. There with other Chileans, he got a Marxist education for a year, studying Marxist and Leninist doctrine. He was a member of the “Unión de Jóvenes Demócratas”(UJD), of liberal inspiration. Ampuero remembered that “the JHSWP wasn’t a Punto Cero of military training like the ones that are in Cuba, Bulgaria, Libya, but a school of ideological thinking, but many others started believing in the idea that the only way was to resort to arms.

In 1983 he crossed over to West Germany. From that year until 1993 he worked as a correspondent for the Italian agency IPS and as director of the German magazine Desarrollo y Cooperación, in Bonn. The following year he published his first novel, called El Hombre Golondrina in German, and in 1985 he published his second novel, La Guerra de los Duraznos, also in German. One of the two novels is illustrated by Santos Chávez. Both novels were published later in Spanish in 1997 and 2001 respectively, corrected and further developed.

After receiving a scholarship to journalism at the University of Karl Marx in Leipzig, he was able to leave Chile through a contact at the Eastern German Embassy.

Roberto Ampuero Net Worth

Roberto Ampuero is one of the richest Novelist from Chile. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Roberto Ampuero 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Roberto Ampuero was born in Valparaiso on 20 February 1953. He is a Chilean author and columnist. He was the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile. This position he held between March 11, 2018 and June 13, 2019. His first novel ?Quien mato a Kristian Kustermann? It was published in 1993. He introduced Cayetano, his private eye. The book won the Revista del Libro prize from El Mercurio. The detective has been featured in five novels since then. He also published Nuestros Anos Verde Olivo (1999), a memoir about his time in Cuba, and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo, Book of the Year in Chile 2003, and the bestseller of the Year in Chile (2003 and 2006) as well as Pasiones Griegas, which was named the Best Spanish Novel in China (2006). His novels were published in Latin America, Spain, and translated into English, French, Italian and Chinese. His works have been published in Chile in more than 40 editions. Ampuero currently resides in Iowa, where he is a professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa. He was a columnist at La Tercera, the New York Times Syndicate, and has been a columnist at El Mercurio since March 2009. He was the Minister of Culture for Sebastian Pinera’s government between 2013 and 2014.

Ampuero lived 17 years in Valparaiso before moving to Santiago in 1972 to matriculate at the University of Chile. He studied Social Anthropology in mornings and Latin American Literature afternoons. He joined the Chilean Communist Youth around this time. He said that he was a member of the Chilean Communist Youth when he was young.

In 1977 Ampuero obtained the Premio Lautaro de Cuentos (Short Stories Prize) from the Comité de la Resistencia Chilena, La Habana, and in 1978 he received the Mención Concurso de Cuentos 13 de Marzo. Then in 1979 he obtained a B.A. in Latin American Literature and left Cuba.

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Who is Roberto Ampuero Dating?

According to our records, Roberto Ampuero married to Ana Lucrecia Rivera Schwarz , Margarita Flores. As of December 1, 2023, Roberto Ampuero’s is not dating anyone.

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Ampuero was also creator of the histories, characters, and scenes of “Brigade Escorpión” (Chilean National Television (TVN) 1997) the first political television series that was produced in Chile and one of the first in Latin America.

Facts & Trivia

Roberto Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Chile. Roberto Ampuero celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.

In this period his political thought began to change. In an interview with Michael Moody in 1999 he says “It’s not just that there was a lack of dialogue, but that the government despised the opposition, making them the enemy. I came from a country where it was a tradition to have dialogue, to have liberty. We had tried to restore the socialism, but now there was a dictatorship and what the people most criticized was that the dictator declared everyone against him an enemy of the state, and therefore you have to incarcerate them, shoot them, or expel them out of the country. When I arrived in Cuba I discovered that the government did the same to the opposition and that they didn’t have dialogue either.” In 2008 he remembered that: “When I arrived in Cuba in 1974 and I saw the economic disaster I thought that it was as much a democracy as I am a Martian, I said to myself ‘this is not the country I want! I quit the JJCC (communist youth) in 1976 in La Habana where everything was going on.”

¿Dónde está Roberto Ampuero?

Tras su renuncia a las Juventudes Comunistas Ampuero se va a otro país socialista: regresa a Alemania Oriental, donde , junto a otros chilenos, continuará durante un año su formación marxista en la Escuela Juvenil Superior Wilhelm Pieck (Jugendhochschule Wilhelm Pieck o JHSWP).

¿Quién es Ampuero?

Autor y periodista chileno, Roberto Ampuero estudió en la Universidad de Chile y fue muy activo políticamente durante su juventud, vinculado a posiciones de izquierdas, lo que provocó su exilio tras el golpe de estado de Pinochet en 1973.

¿Quién es el embajador de Chile en Madrid?

El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Chile ha confirmado que el presidente, Gabriel Boric, ha designado a Javier Velasco Villegas como embajador chileno en Madrid.

¿Cómo se llama el cónsul de Chile?

Alexandra Hucke Jul Canciller.

¿Cómo entrar a Chile siendo chileno?

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