Camilo Marks

Camilo Marks (born 1948) is a Chilean human rights lawyer, academic, writer, and literary critic.

Biography Camilo Marks is the son of Loreto Alonso, the sixth daughter of a Spanish communist deputy who "escaped the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and arrived in Chile in 1940 with his family after living in France." The writer's grandfather Camilo had the French surname Marqes. This lost its original spelling when his father (also Camilo) was named, and was changed to match its pronunciation: Marks. The couple had a second child, Rodrigo. Camilo's father separated from Loreto (although they never divorced), resided in Valdivia, and had two children with his new partner, whom they named Camilo and Camila. and after its dissolution, in the agencies that continued with this work: the Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation, the Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior, and the Valech Commission.

Literary career Marks says that he learned to read at an early age, and decided that someday he would become a writer, which in fact happened many years later. "Of course, I delayed a lot, maybe too much, in becoming a public one. I am definitely a late writer, and that is due to everything I have in the book and other things I do not tell," Marks said in an interview after the publication of his memoirs in 2015.

First, he began to write literary criticism at the Literlex Law School. Then, on his return from exile, he wrote for Apsi magazine, , Qué Pasa, La Tercera, and finally El Mercurio. But it was his presence on TVN's cultural program which made him well known.