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371:"Lafourcade" a household name in Chile. Numerous anecdotes surround his name, including engaging in a fist fight with another journalist during a live television program. For some time he wrote a gastronomic review under the name of "Conde de Lafourchette" ("fourchette" meaning "fork" in French) in
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According to public records, Lafourcade was married three times: 1953 - 1978 to
Chilean-born Canadian artist Maria Luisa Segnoret; 1978 to 2008 to Chilean writer and journalist Marcela Godoy Divin; and lastly 2009-2019 to Chilean painter Rossana Pizarro Garcia, with whom he reportedly lived for
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Lafourcade’s family has continued the legacy of writers and musicians. His son
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He appeared in numerous television programs, both as guest and as part of recurring panels of cultural critics. His ironic and often sarcastic style as well as his impudent way of offering opinions on just about everything and everybody produced more than one commotion in the country, making
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Lafourcade was a member of the so-called "Generation of the 50s", a term suggested by
Lafourcade himself in 1954 to describe authors born between 1920 and 1934 who began to flourish in the 1950s, writers who departed in content and style from the previous regional style known as
412:(Gaston's daughter), born in Mexico, has become a well-known singer, composer and rock pop star, recipient of Grammy Awards; and his grand-daughter, Colomba Braña Lafourcade, is a Chilean-American singer, composer and environmental activist under the name of “ColombaLá”.
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Lafourcade from Chile".
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nearly 20 years. He also had a long relationship with
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in Africa, and though a work of fiction, it is inspired by the letters of the poet and three years of additional research. The novel was launched on 20 October 2004, on the 150th anniversary of
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