Archivo de Autores



Portrait of Rodrigo Lira


Portrait of Rodrigo Lira.

Rodrigo Lira Fonds.


Archivo de Autores is an initiative of the Archival Program at Universidad Diego Portales that seeks to preserve, activate, and provide public access to the personal fonds and collections of writers, artists, and intellectuals whose work has contributed to shaping the Chilean and Latin American cultural field.

More than a simple accumulation of documents, this archive recognizes in each fonds a singular mode of inscription: a rhythm, a materiality, an affective constellation that resists standardized frameworks of technical description. We conceive each fonds not merely as a set of records but as a form of authorship—a discontinuous writing of history that demands to be read, assembled, and interpreted.

The Archivo de Autores is part of UDP’s commitment to open access, scholarly research, and critical reflection on Chile’s intellectual and artistic legacy through curatorial strategies, publications, digitization processes, and digital platforms that seek to revitalize these materials in the present.

Fonds and Collections


Soledad Bianchi

Soledad Bianchi

This fonds gathers manuscripts, correspondence, recorded interviews, press materials, photographs, critical essays, and working documents related to various intellectual projects, including books and research. Read more.



Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño

The records were preserved by literary scholar Soledad Bianchi, with whom Bolaño maintained a correspondence from 1975 to 1997. They include letters, poems, literary magazines, and related documents. Part of the Soledad Bianchi Fonds, organized in 2024–2025. Read more.



Manuel Corrada

Manuel Corrada

This fonds brings together Manuel Corrada’s personal library and archives, crossing exact sciences, art, architecture, and literature. It includes books, magazines, maps, printed ephemera, notebooks, minor correspondence, and audiovisual records. Read more.



Guillermo Deisler

Guillermo Deisler

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


Other Archival Holdings


Presidential Archive of Ricardo Lagos

Presidential Archive of Ricardo Lagos

This fonds preserves documents, photographs, speeches, audiovisual records, and press materials covering both Ricardo Lagos’s political career and his interventions in national and international public life. It is part of the UDP Archival Program and is managed through an independent platform also developed with AtoM. Read more.


Vision

Our aim is to consolidate the Archivo de Autores as a reference in the field of literary and cultural archives in Latin America, promoting not only conservation but also critical reading, public activation, and transdisciplinary circulation. Each fonds, in this sense, is an open form, an ongoing question about memory, authorship, and the legibility of the past.