Archivo de Autores

Portrait of Rodrigo Lira.
Rodrigo Lira Archive.

Archivo de Autores is an initiative of the Archivos Program at Universidad Diego Portales that brings together, preserves, and activates personal fonds and collections of writers, artists, intellectuals, journalists, architects, and philosophers whose work has contributed to shaping the Chilean and Latin American cultural field.

More than a mere accumulation of documents, this archive recognizes in each fonds a singular mode of inscription: a rhythm, a materiality, an affective constellation that challenges standardized frameworks of technical description. We understand each archive not only as a set of documents, but as a form of authorship: a discontinuous writing of history that must be read, assembled, and interpreted.

A central part of our work is to respect the organization and internal logic of each archive, acknowledging its forms and particularities, while ensuring that its description remains legible, accessible, and interoperable according to international standards such as ISAD(G). This effort is accompanied by measures for care and long-term preservation, ensuring both the physical integrity of the materials and their future availability for research and public consultation.

Archivo de Autores is in a continuous process of description and cataloguing. Some fonds already have complete records, while others contain partial or developing information. Part of the materials has been digitized and is available online; others are currently undergoing digitization. In most cases, consultation takes place in person at the Archivos Reading Room of the Biblioteca Nicanor Parra (Vergara 324, Santiago). Each fonds page specifies the status of its description and access conditions.

This initiative forms part of UDP’s commitment to open access, research, and critical reflection on Chile’s intellectual and artistic legacy. Through curatorial strategies, publications, digitization processes, and web platforms, we seek to restore the vitality of these materials in the present, fostering new readings, interpretations, and connections across works, contexts, and disciplines.

The fonds brings together manuscripts, correspondence, interview recordings, press material, photographs, critical texts, and working materials related to various intellectual projects, including books and research. See more.

The fonds brings together historical photographs, personal and diplomatic correspondence, negatives, albums, and graphic material, largely linked to the Balmaceda family. It includes letters from former president José Manuel Balmaceda and a manuscript of Still Life with Pipe by José Donoso dedicated to Fernando Balmaceda. See more.

The documents were preserved by the academic and literary critic Soledad Bianchi, with whom Bolaño maintained an epistolary relationship between 1975 and 1997. They include letters, poems, magazines, and related materials. They form part of the Soledad Bianchi Fonds and were organized in 2024–2025. See more.

Brings together the personal library and archives of Manuel Corrada, intersecting exact sciences, art, architecture, and literature. Includes books, journals, maps, printed ephemera, handwritten notebooks, minor correspondence, and audiovisual records. See more.

Printed publications linked to his poetic, editorial, and visual work. Includes books, plaquettes, journals, dedicated documents, and visual and experimental poetry. See more.

The fonds preserves the personal archive of Chilean journalist, filmmaker, and professor Hernán Dinamarca, recognized for his work in communication, university teaching, socio-environmental activism, as well as his editorial and cinematic production. See more.

The fonds brings together an extensive set of audio, photographic, and documentary records that document Claudia Donoso’s trajectory as an interviewer, photographer, and writer, as well as her relationship with key figures in literature and the arts in Chile and Latin America. See more.

A representative selection of the global circulation of his work. Includes editions in multiple languages, dedications, supervised translations, and his “Red Book.” See more.

The fonds preserves manuscripts, correspondence, objects, books, and an extensive body of documentation by the writer, journalist, and diplomat Jorge Edwards. See more.

Joaquín Edwards Bello

Urban narrator, chronicler, and acute observer of Chilean modernity. Inventory in progress.

The fonds preserves unpublished manuscripts, original poems, and autograph materials by the Chilean poet Altenor Guerrero (1917–1983), associated with lyric poetry and author of books such as Heredad del hombre and Fuego defendido. Among the documents are typed and handwritten versions of his unpublished book La estrella y otras palabras (1972), as well as other unpublished poetry collections and original writing notebooks. Inventory in progress. See more.

Collection on agrarian development and political economy in Latin America. Includes books, journals, theses, and working documents. Inventory in progress.See more.

Fonds of architect Ernesto Labbé. Brings together models, plans, drawings, and photographs that document his trajectory, working methods, and contributions to Chilean architectural debate. Inventory in progress.See more.

The fonds consists of forty-five documents containing the correspondence between Enrique Lihn and his daughter Andrea, along with three cloth-bound notebooks that include manuscripts, clippings, drawings, photographs, and other personal materials. This documentation offers an intimate view of the relationship between father and daughter and constitutes a valuable literary and biographical source for the study of Lihn, his family environment, and his creative processes in the final years of his life. See more.

Manuscripts, drawings, recordings, letters, and personal objects. They reflect his daily life, poetic work, and cultural networks. See more.

Journals, notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence, and personal objects. Includes materials related to Rodrigo Lira. See more.

The fonds brings together press material on the APSI magazine and the role of Arturo Navarro during his tenure as its director.See more.

The fonds brings together works by the antipoet, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, personal documents, and a wide range of materials documenting the cultural impact of his work in Chile and internationally. It includes editions of his work in multiple countries and languages, translations, critical studies, as well as periodical publications, graphic material, recordings, objects, and items that reflect both his artistic trajectory and his presence in cultural debates.See more.

Clandestine publications and political documents produced during the dictatorship. They make it possible to reconstruct the thought and action of the Chilean left. See more.

The fonds preserves an extensive collection of works, documents, and correspondence by the Chilean artist Eugenio Téllez, whose international trajectory and visual experimentation have been central to articulating a critical memory of art and political violence. It includes prints, sketches, notebooks, letters, catalogues, photographs, and archival materials related to his exhibitions and artistic networks across Latin America, North America, and Europe. See more.

The fonds preserves working documents, reading notes, audio material, and annotated copies of books and articles by the Chilean philosopher Roberto Torretti. This documentation reflects his processes of study, writing, and reflection, constituting a key source for researching the intellectual history of philosophy in Chile and philosophical practice in the twentieth century. See more.

Published and unpublished work, correspondence, devotional objects, and materials from the project “Poesía es +”. See more.

The fonds preserves textual, audiovisual, and photographic materials linked to the work and artistic actions of the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita. It includes the print originals of El paraíso está vacío (1986), video recordings, and a set of photographs and press materials related to his artistic interventions. See more.

This archive preserves documents, photographs, speeches, audiovisual records, and press materials covering both the political trajectory of Ricardo Lagos and his interventions in national and international public life. It forms part of the Archivos Program at UDP and has an independent platform also developed with AtoM. See more.

This archive preserves the holdings of the newspaper La Nación, composed entirely of original materials: newspapers, supplements, magazines, cartoons, and photographic negatives. Among the bound newspapers organized chronologically by month and year are also copies of other publications such as La Mañana (1909–1916), Los Tiempos (1923–1931, 1953–1955), El Cronista (1976–1980), La Patria (1974), and La Nación (1917–2010), among others, covering a time span from 1911 to 2010. It has an independent platform also developed with AtoM. See more.