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IWP Alumni Oscar Hahn has been awarded the "Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro" in Chile, which is given to the best book of poetry published in 2006 and carries a prize of $15,000. Oscar won for his volume of poetry En un abrir y cerrar de ojos (Madrid: Visor, 2006).
Since the 1977 publication of Arte de Morir, his first full-length collection of poems, Oscar Hahn (b. 1938, Chile) has been recognized as a major poet. His second major collection, Mal de Amor (1981), was taken off library shelves and removed from bookstores by the military junta in Chile a month after its publication, but reissued in an expanded edition five years later. In recent years Hahn has had editions of his collected poems published in Chile, Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Greece, and other countries. He attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1971, and is currently a Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa.