Carla Cordua

Cordua was born in Los Ángeles, Chile on Christmas Day, 1925. She entered the University of Chile in 1948 and studied under Bogumil Jasinowski and Oscar Marín.^[1]

In 2006 she received the Jorge Millas Award for academic merit from the Austral University of Chile.^[2]

She was married to Roberto Torretti who was also a philosopher. During the period of military dictatorship the two left Chile.^[3] In 2011 they were jointly awarded Chile's National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences.^[4]