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About Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman is a writer who teaches at Duke University and holds fellowships at Universities worldwide.

Articles by Ariel Dorfman

Thursday 22nd December

A Morse code for 2006

Ariel Dorfman, 22 December 2005
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
Thursday 7th April

The five minutes of Pope John Paul II

Ariel Dorfman, 7 April 2005
As millions gather to witness the Polish pope’s Rome burial, Ariel Dorfman recalls the five minutes in Chile that define his life’s paradox.
Thursday 8th May

Hammurabi, the exalted prince who made great the name of Babylon!

Ariel Dorfman, 8 May 2003
…has words from the other side of death for Donald Rumsfeld. Baghdad fell to a terrible echo - the smashing and pillaging of the priceless artefacts of its ancient civilisation. Across 3,800 years, the greatest law-giver of its Babylonian ancestor sends this fierce message to its latest conqueror
Thursday 10th April

Christopher Columbus has words from the other side of death for Captain John Whyte...

Ariel Dorfman, 10 April 2003
...who rebaptised Saddam International Airport as his troops rolled into it. The peremptory renaming of the main airport in Iraq’s capital city by its occupier from across the ocean stirs a centuries-old adventurer from his restless tomb.
Thursday 20th March

Hymn for the Unsung

Ariel Dorfman, 20 March 2003
Novelist and Playwright Dorfman wrote these words on the brink of a destructive war in the Gulf, where President Bush’s US forces squared up to those of Saddam Hussein. That they were written twelve years ago, on the brink of the first Gulf War, but not even the names have changed, is a chilling example of history repeating.
Tuesday 25th February

Pablo Picasso has words for Colin Powell from the other side of death

Ariel Dorfman, 25 February 2003
When the United States secretary of state presented his case against Iraq at the United Nations Security Council on 5 February, the tapestry of Guernica that routinely hangs there was covered up. This symbolic denial of a supreme artistic response to war moved Ariel Dorfman to poetry.
Thursday 27th September

The two 11 Septembers

Ariel Dorfman, 27 September 2001
On the same date twenty-eight years apart, the two American cities which shaped Ariel Dorfman’s life - Santiago and New York - have now suffered catastrophe. Their terrible fate, he reflects, also offers the chance to repair damaged humanity.
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