Sergio Infante
Sergio Infante (born May 1, 1947, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean poet, essayist, professor and writer living in Sweden. In the late 1960s he was active in Chile’s cultural life and studied at the School of Fine Arts in Santiago. He published his first poetry collection, Gray Abysses, in 1967. Because of his social commitment and Chile’s political climate, he left his art studies and moved to Chiloe Island in southern Chile. He was there when the 1973 Pinochet coup occurred, and he went into exile, leaving Chile for Argentina.
After a brief stay in Buenos Aires, he moved to Sweden, where he was granted refugee status in 1975. In 1977 he helped found the Stockholm-based lyric group Taller with Adrian Santini and Carlos Geywitz; the group welcomed Chilean poet Sergio Badilla Castillo in 1978. By the late 1980s, now holding a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literature, Infante became a professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Stockholm University.
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