Daniela Catrileo, born in 1987 in Santiago de Chile, is a writer, artist, activist, and philosophy lecturer. She studied pedagogy and philosophy at the Universidad Metropolitana de las Ciencias de la Educaci\u00f3n. She organizes literary workshops, is an active member of the Mapuche collective \u00bbRangi\u00f1tulewf\u00fc\u00ab, and received grants from the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Catrileo is committed to the rights of Chile’s indigenous population: in 2018, together with filmmaker Roc\u00edo Ch\u00e1vez Garc\u00eda and professor Carolina Herrera \u00c1guila, she realized the multi-part intervention \u00bbMari pura warangka k\u00fcla patakamari meli: 18.314\u00ab in Santiago de Chile, which addresses Anti-Terrorism Law 18.314, enacted in 1984 under the Pinochet dictatorship, and the injustice it inflicted on the Mapuche.<\/p>\n
As a writer, Catrileo first became known primarily for her poetry. The title of her first poetry collection, \u00bbR\u00edo Herido\u00ab (2016), derives from her own surname: \u00bbCatrileo\u00ab is a hispanicized form of the Mapuche word \u00bbkatr\u00fc lewf\u00fc\u00ab, meaning “wounded river,” or “r\u00edo herido.” The river becomes a metaphor for the loss of identity and the Mapuche’s ongoing resistance against erasure and assimilation. These were followed by \u00bbEl territorio del viaje\u00ab (transl.: Territory of Travel), the digital publication \u00bbIntervertebrada\u00ab, and the volume \u00bbGuerra Florida \/ Ray\u00fclechi Malon\u00ab (2018; transl.: Flowering War). With \u00bbPi\u00f1en\u00ab (2020; tr. Grime Clinging to the Body), she presented her first prose volume: three stories set in post-dictatorship Santiago of the 1990s dealing with death, violence, racism, and female Mapuche identity, which historian Claudia Zapata Silva described as “a literary work from the trenches of counterculture.” In 2023, Catrileo’s debut novel \u00bbChilco\u00ab was published. The English edition (tr. Jacob Edelstein) is regarded as the first novel by a Mapuche woman published in English.<\/p>\n
In 2019 and 2024, she received the Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago. In 2026, Daniela Catrileo received the Anna Seghers Prize. Daniela Catrileo has also published numerous articles and essays in Chilean and Argentine newspapers and magazines. She lives in Valpara\u00edso.<\/p>\n
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