Jorge Baradit

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Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales is a Chilean writer born in Valparaíso on 11 June 1969. Before 2005 he was little known and worked as a graphic designer. His first novel, Ygdrasil (2005), was published by Ediciones B and is a science-fiction thriller set in a futuristic Mexico. It was followed by Trinidad (2007), Synco (2008), an alternate-history novel, and Kalfukura (2009), a young-adult novel. He later moved into graphic novels such as Policía del karma (2011) and Lluscuma, and wrote the Historia secreta de Chile books from 2015. He is associated with the Freak Power movement in Chilean letters. His awards include the UPC Prize (2007), the FIC Prize (2011) and the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize (2014). He also became a podcaster and served in Chile's Constitutional Convention from 2021 to 2022.

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• Kalfukura. El corazón de la tierra (2009) · Kalfukura Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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