Ariel Dorfman has written extensively on Chile. Among his own books on that country are his memoir "Heading South, Looking North" (1998) and "Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North" (2004), which won the Lowell Thomas Silver Award for best travel book.
The crazy character of this wondrous land shines in the poems of Pablo Neruda, while its strife under Pinochet is captured best by José Donoso and Patricia Verdugo
