Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American writer whose books have been published in over 50 languages and whose plays have been performed in more than 100 countries. A distinguished professor emeritus at Duke University, his works include the play “Death and the Maiden” (1990); the memoirs “Heading South, Looking North” (1999), “Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet” (2002) and “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile” (2011); and the novels “Cautivos” (2020), “The Compensation Bureau” (2021) and “The Suicide Museum” (2023).