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Sergio Badilla Castillo was born on 30 November, 1947 in Valparaíso, is a Chilean poet. Discover Sergio Badilla Castillo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Poet, journalist
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 30 November, 1947
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace Valparaíso
Nationality Chile

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1947

Sergio Badilla Castillo (born November 30, 1947, in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry.

He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish poets, Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Paavo Haavikko, Pentti Saarikoski and the Swedes Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer and Lars Gustafsson.

1972

Badilla Castillo graduated in journalism from the University of Chile in 1972.

He graduated also in Methodology of Social Anthropology, from Stockholm University.

He worked for nearly 13 years at The Swedish Radio Broadcasting Co, as culture journalist, a concern that would lead later, to his work as a translator of Swedish and Scandinavian poetry, British and American poetry.

His father was a sailor from whom he got his nomadic motivation.

Badilla Castillo travelled throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the 20 years he spent in Scandinavia.

1973

In 1973 Badilla's first book of poetry, Amid the Cement and the Grass, was published in Valparaiso.

1975

He settled for a while also in Romania in 1975, interested in ancient Wallachian and Transylvanian mythology.

1980

Later, in 1980 he published his second book, Lower from my Branch, a collection of short stories, in Borås, Sweden, which received very good critical reviews.

1981

Between 1981 and 1987 he published three of his Scandinavian influenced books: The Dwelling of the Sign, Oniric Song and Reverberations of Aquatic Stones.

As well being a productive poet during this period he was also a respected translator of Swedish, Finnish, English, French and some Latin poetry.

Badilla's initial topics were often tied to mythological or fabled subjects, while many of the poems featured legends.

1991

In Sweden, his poems were included in the first anthology of Chilean Poetry published by Bonnier in 1991.

1993

Badilla worked as a journalist and teacher when he returned to Chile in 1993.

His return from exile to Chile in 1993 marked a change for Badilla Castillo, in that he started to write in a much more autobiographical and manner.

In his book Nordic Saga he changed his language completely.

It was a period of awkward and challenging experimentation, with many legendary subjects derived from the mythological Viking’s Sagas.

Badilla Castillo established contact with Rudy Rucker’s transrealism.

2003

In Badilla Castillo's later volumes, such as The Fearful Gaze of the Bastard (2003), and Transreal Poems and Some Gospels (2005)), he confronts reality, creating an almost illusory world, where words, time and dimensional changes play a cardinal role in the lyrical frame. His latest poetry is solidly imaginary, using in many respects time dislocations and immediate perceptions of a certain described reality, and filled with admiration for the ordinary world. He now lives in Santiago, and one catches a glimpse of the effect of this South Pacific landscape everywhere in his latest poems, though the environment remains symbolic and individual.

2014

A research on global celebrities done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, through its Pantheon project, released in April 2014, shows that the poet Sergio Badilla Castillo occupies 12th position among the most notorious public figures of Chile in the world community.

The investigation took into account 11,338 people born between 4000 BC until 2010 D.C. Castillo also appears in the fourth positions amid the most famous Chilean writers of all times.