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Marcelo Enrique Leonart Tomas (born 1970) is a Chilean writer, filmmaker, and theater director.




Biography


An avid reader in childhood, Marcelo Leonart wrote his first play, No salgas esta noche, in 1991. He developed his skills by attending the literary workshops of Poli Délano, Antonio Skármeta, and Carlos Franz. It was in the last of these where he finished Mujer desnuda fumando en la ventana, his first book, which was published in 1999.
Some of the stories of that collection had already received awards, and the 2008 film 199 recetas para ser feliz, by Andrés Waissbluth, is based on one of them.
The following year, he was part of the scriptwriting team of the television series Romané. He went on to write for several other series. In 2012 he moved from TVN to Canal 13.
As a dramatist, Leonart has written a series of pieces, and among the most recent he has directed is El taller. Written by Nona Fernández and premiered in 2012, it is inspired by the literary workshop that Mariana Callejas had at her home in Lo Curro, while her husband Michael Townley directed the operations of a DINA barracks in the basement.
His first novel, Fotos de Laura, was applauded by critics and awarded, as was his second compilation of stories, La educación. After these two books appeared in 2012, he published the novels Lacra, La patria – whose main character is Francisco Javier Cuadra, minister of Augusto Pinochet – and Pascua, "which has at its center the abuses committed by priests."
As a filmmaker, Leonart co-directed, together with Paulo Avilés, the film Grita (based on his homonymous theatrical work), which premiered in 2009 at the Santiago International Film Festival.
He has a son, Dante, with his partner, the writer Nona Fernández, whom he met when they both studied at the Theater School of the Catholic University. In 2004 the couple founded the theater company La Fusa, with which Leonart staged all his works from Grita to Liceo de niñas. The latter premiered in 2015, and with it the company was renamed La Pieza Oscura.




Awards


Óscar Castro Award
First place at the Gabriela Mistral Literary Games
1998 Juan Rulfo de Cuento Award (Radio France International, Paris) for Maribel bajo el brazo
2006 Altazor Award in the TV Script category for Los treinta (ex aequo)
2011 National Book and Reading Council Award in the Best Unpublished Work category for La educación
2011 Revista de Libros Award (El Mercurio) for Fotos de Laura
2012 National Book Council Award in the Best Unpublished Work category for the novel Lacra
2017 National Book Council Award in the Best Unpublished Work category for the novel Weichafe




Works






= Narrative

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Mujer desnuda fumando en la ventana, stories, Colección del Sur, Planeta, 1999 (Booket, 2004); containing five texts:
"Noticias de Milo", "Última llamada", "Maribel bajo el brazo", "Noches con Antonia", and "Mujer desnuda fumando en la ventana"
Fotos de Laura, novel, El Mercurio/Aguilar, Santiago, 2012
La educación, stories, Tajamar, Santiago, 2012; containing six stories:
"Crías", "Los perros", "Pájaros negro olfateando la carroña", "Caparazón", "Los cuerpos", and "La educación"
La patria, novel with the principal character Francisco Javier Cuadra; Tajamar, Santiago, 2012
Lacra, novel, Tajamar, Santiago, 2013
Pascua, novel, Tajamar, Santiago, 2015
El libro rojo de la historia de Chile, novel, Tajamar, Santiago, 2016




= Theater

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No salgas esta noche, 1991
Sobre los mismos techos, 1992
SubCielo, fuego en la ciudad, 1994
Pompa Bye-Bye, 1995
Encadenados, 1997
Grita, 2004; published in the book Bestiario, freakshow temporada 1973/1990, together with Medusa (2010, by Ximena Carrera) and El taller (2012, by Nona Fernández); Ceibo Ediciones, Santiago, 2013
Lo invisible, 2006
Cuerpos mutilados en el campo de batalla, 2007
Todas las fiestas del mañana, 2008
Noche mapuche, directed by the author; La Pieza Oscura company, GAM, 30 September – 28 October 2017




= Telenovelas

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Original stories

16 (2003)
17 (2005)
Los treinta (2005)
Disparejas (2006)
Amor por accidente (2007)
40 y Tantos (2010)



Adaptations

Romané (2000) – original by Sergio Bravo
Amores de mercado (2001) – original by Fernando Aragón and Arnaldo Madrid
Purasangre (2002) – original by Alejandro Cabrera and Larissa Contreras
Aída (2008) – original by Nacho G. Velilla
Los exitosos Pells (2009) – Original by Esther Feldman and Alejandro Maci
Secretos en el jardín (2013) – original by Julio Rojas and Matías Ovalle



New versions rewritten by others

Dulce amargo (2013) (Los treinta) - by Iris Dubs




References






External links


Marcelo Leonart at Tajamar Editores
Marcelo Leonart at IMDb

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• Marcelo Leonart
• Nona Fernández
• 199 Tips to Be Happy
• Carmina Riego
• Casa de muñecos
• Francisco Javier Cuadra
• Hey...Yehii To Haii Woh!
• List of Televisión Nacional de Chile telenovelas
• 40 y Tantos
• Dulce amargo