An interview with Ariel Dorfman.(WLT Interview)(Interview) From: World Literature Today | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: McClennen, Sophia A. | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ARIEL DORFMAN is a Chilean novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, journalist, and human-rights activist. Born in Argentina in 1942 to Jewish immigrants, Dorfman was forced to move to the United States with his family in 1945 due to anti-Semitism and political intolerance. They then became the victims of McCarthyism in 1954, when Dorfman's father was targeted as a communist threat. They next fled to Chile, where Dorfman eventually gained citizenship. When Augusto Pinochet led a coup ...