- The Canarian writer presents her fourth book 'The poet who Allendó a Pinochet' at the Antonio Padrón House Museum on May 8, at 7:00 p.m.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, May 6, 2025.- The Antonio Padrón House-Museum. On May 8, at 7:00 p.m., the Indigenous Art Center hosts the presentation of the book 'The poet who Allendó a Pinochet', by the Canarian writer Nadia Jimenez.
This is her fourth book published by Mercurio Editorial, presented as an unpublished journey to the chronicle of the coup d'état in Chile, which occurred on September 11, 1973. In the aforementioned work, of more than 300 pages, the novelist narrates the experience of her father, the poet Juan Jiménez, during that event and how she also managed to rescue two people alive who otherwise would have been victims of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
After a year of research work, the author novels those days of terror in the form of a poetic chronicle to peek into one of the most unknown facets of the outstanding poet, author of titles such as 'Itinerary against', 'Epigrams' or 'The necessary song with María C'.
Regarding the title of the book, Nadia Jiménez explains that she was inspired by a verse from her father in which Juan Jiménez said that life had to be lived 'cheguevarmente'. "I told myself that if Juan Jiménez had made Ché Guevara an adverb, I could well turn Allende into a verb to narrate what my father achieved in the face of Pinochet's coup d'état, because Pinochet turned out to be Allendado. That is what my father did, evade the strict military security at the Santiago airport. And I am sure of the result achieved in 'The Poet Who Allendó a Pinochet,' she says.
According to the Canarian writer, "not even the smallest circle of my father's friends and intellectuals (only a few) knew of his experience in the southern cone of Latin America. He traveled to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile..., he pursued and participated in the dream of the Chilean path to socialism when Spain suffered from the Franco regime. I dare say that Allende and Juan Jiménez embody the fight for freedom, for revolution through peaceful and democratic means."
Nadia Jimenez
Nadia Jiménez was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1968 and is the author of four books published to date: 'El Poeta de Allendó a Pinochet', 'Es el tiempo', 'Ukrania sin cielo' and 'Dátiles por la vereda'.
She has been a lawyer and cultural critic since 2000. She coordinates the Art and Culture section in the digital newspaper Espiral21.com. She is the daughter of the poet of the Poesía Canaria Última generation Juan Jiménez and the painter María Castro.
