Discipline: Literature – fiction

Simón López-Trujillo

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Santiago, CHILE
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022

Simón López-Trujillo is a Chilean writer and translator. He has published the novel El vasto territorio (2021), the poetry chapbook Maestranza (2018), and the poem-object Intemperie (2017). He is the co-translator, alongside Rodrigo Olavarría, of Un bestiario (2021) by Lily Hoang, and of Poemas contra la policía vol. 1 (2021), an anthology of poems against police brutality, curated and translated by the Frank Ocean Collective of Writing and Translation. He has been awarded the Roberto Bolaño Award (2018), and has received grants and fellowships from the Chilean Ministry of Arts & Culture (2018, 2021), the Pablo Neruda Foundation (2018), and MacDowell (2022).

At MacDowell, he completed the draft of Jimmy Button, his second novel, which rewrites the story of Jemmy Button, a young Fuegian kidnapped by Robert FitzRoy in 1830. Conceived as a coming-of-age story about a young Indigenous artist, the book reflects upon subjects such as postcolonialism, extra-activism, and the current situation of Yahgan people in Chile.

Studios

Sorosis

Simón López-Trujillo worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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