Miguel Castillo Didier


Miguel Ángel Castillo Didier is a Chilean hellenist, translator, scholar and musicologist.
Castillo Didier has been recognized as one of the most prestigious translators of the poets Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis and Nikos Kazantzakis, so his work is also recognized and awarded by the Greek government itself.

Biography

He was born in Santiago, Chile.
During Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was exiled in Venezuela.
On 27 March 2012, the State of Chile, on National Council for Culture and the Arts behalf, awarded Castillo the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit in National Library of Chile dependencies.

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