Julio Carrasco

Julio Carrasco (Chile, 1969) is a poet, novelist, musician, and civil engineer whose work moves across disciplines and forms. He is a member of Casagrande, a Chilean art collective known for large-scale urban interventions, especially the 'Bombing of Poems', in which verses are dropped over cities that have experienced aerial attacks, transforming memory into art.

Carrasco’s life has been shaped by political history. The son of leftist militants detained during the Pinochet dictatorship, he spent part of his childhood in exile in Paris and Havana before returning to Chile in 1993.

Alongside his literary work, he studied music composition at the University of Chile and became the lead singer of the band Los Muebles. He has also contributed to soundtracks for Chilean films. His publications include the novel Fuimos a bombardear Croacia (We Went to Bomb Croatia, Alfaguara, 2014), as well as the chronicles Antártida: No se asegura regreso (Antarctica: No Return Guaranteed, Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, 2015) and Travesía al Cabo de Hornos (Voyage to Cape Horn, Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, 2016).