Miguel Castillo Didier
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Miguel Castillo Didier | |
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| Director of the Universidad de Chile Center for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies | |
| Assumed office 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Alejandro Zorbas Daskalakis |
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| Born | 14 April 1934 Chile |
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| Occupation | Researcher |
| Profession | Historian |
Miguel Castillo Didier |
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Miguel Ángel Castillo Didier (born 14 April 1934) is a Chilean hellenist, translator, scholar and musicologist.
Castillo Didier has been recognized as one of the most prestigious translators of the poets Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis and Nikos Kazantzakis, so his work is also recognized and awarded by the Greek government itself.[1]
He was born in Santiago, Chile.
During Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was exiled in Venezuela.[1]
On 27 March 2012, the State of Chile, on National Council for Culture and the Arts behalf, awarded Castillo the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit in National Library of Chile dependencies.[2][3][4]
