Roberto Castillo Sandoval (born 1957) is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an author.(Ph.D.Harvard University, 1992, A.M. Harvard University, 1987; M.A. Vanderbilt University, 1985; B.A. Kenyon College, 1982) who currently teaches Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

n studies and comparative literature at Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

 in Haverford, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, USA. He has published scholarly essays on Latin American colonial and contemporary literature, short fiction, and poetry, as well as travel chronicles and literary and opinion columns for Chilean print and web media. His novel Muriendo por la dulce patria mía (Planeta, 1998) was based on the life of Chilean heavyweight boxer Arturo Godoy

Arturo Godoy

-Biography:He was born in Iquique, Chile, in 1910.He was South American Heavyweight Champion and had an extensive and successful career in Argentina, Cuba, Spain, and the United States roughly between 1931 and 1954.In New York he beat Tony Galento....

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