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Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France. ==Life and career== Jorge Edwards is a Chilean novelist and journalist. Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile. During the presidency of Salvador Allende, Edwards reopened the Chilean embassy in Havana, Cuba, but only three months later, the government of Fidel Castro declared him ''persona non grata''. From this episode he wrote, perhaps, his most famous work, ''Persona non grata'' (1971). In June 1994, Edwards accepted the post of Ambassador for Chile before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has its headquarters in Paris, a city where Edwards resided for many years.() Edwards currently lives in Santiago de Chile. In 2008 his novel ''La Casa de Dostoievsky'' won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, worth $200,000.〔(Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa ), official website〕 In 2010 Edwards was granted Spanish citizenship by King Juan Carlos.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jorge Edwards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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