Yanko González

Yanko González holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology, is an academic at the Institute of History and Social Sciences at the Austral University of Chile, and is director of the university's publishing house. He has published, among others, the books Metales Pesados (Heavy Metals, 1998 and 2017), Héroes Civiles y Santos Laicos (Civil Heroes and Lay Saints, 1999 and 2023), Alto Volta (2007), Elábuga (2011), Los Más Ordenaditos: Fascismo y Juventud en la Dictadura de Pinochet (Hueders, Best Literary Works in Chile Award, 2021, and Manuel Montt Award, 2024), and Torpedos (2024). His work appears in numerous anthologies of Chilean and Latin American poetry, including Cuerpo plural. Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea (Pre-Textos, 2010), Doce en punto: poesía chilena reciente 1971-1982 (UNAM, Mexico, 2012), The Alteration of Silence: Recent Chilean Poetry (USA, 2013), and Náufragos y novísimos: Última poesía chilena (Elliot, Rome, 2017).