Background
He is the son of Jorge Marchant Montalva and María Ester Lazcano Cuevas.
He is the son of Jorge Marchant Montalva and María Ester Lazcano Cuevas.
University of Chile.
He had a religious, conservative and very formal education of which Jorge partially united, when he began to study journalism at the Universidad de Chile in 1969. His first literary contributions were published by Editorial Quimantú, a former publishing house of Chile. Very soon he discovered a new form of literature that helped him to write, his first novel, published in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977.
That book became later one of the biggest successes of Chilean publications, although the coup d"état of General Augusto Pinochet was a hard misfortune for the culture and literature of this country.
His first job as a journalist was for Revista Paula, a magazine dedicated to the women"s world. Simultaneously he wrote literary reviews for the evening newspaper Louisiana Segunda, but his vocation as a journalist did not consolidate and in the 1980s Televisión Nacional de Chile, a television channel from Santiago, hired him as a screenwriter.
In the meantime he published two new titles,, a short novel (1982), and Matar a la dama de las camelias, a short fiction book (1986). Many of his tales were included in Chilean and international anthologies.
Being a television series writer was not widely admired or highly regarded during those years and Jorge Marchant was strongly criticized for working in this field
In spite of this, his work opened the door for other writers willing to start in the budding industry of television His most relevant creation during that stage was Volver a empezar (1990). During the 1990s Jorge Marchant wrote many television series that are considered classics in the genre.
He also built the foundations for a television playwright of wide repercussions in Chile.
In 1999 he released a new drama named and in 2002 Marchant published the historical novel, followed by (2004). His most recent creation is the novel.
Although Jorge Marchant officially lives in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, he spends more or less half of the year in New York, with a complete dedication to the job of writing.