Adriana Valdés Budge (born October 3, 1943 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean writer essayist.
With Pedro Lastra she co-edited the posthumous book of Enrique Lihn, "Diario de muerte", in 1989.
She received the 2010 Altazor Award in literary essay category for her book Enrique Lihn: vistas parciales,[2] and in 2013 was short-listed for the same award for her book on "De ángeles y ninfas", on Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin.
Along with Alfredo Jaar, she published Studies on Happiness, Barcelona, 1999.
[3][4][5] In 2018 she received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in the Essay category for Redefinir lo humano: las humanidades en el siglo XXI.