Rafael Gumucio

Rafael Gumucio Araya (born January 15, 1970, in Santiago) is a Chilean writer and comedian.

He attended high school at the Colegio Regina Pacis in Ñuñoa;,[1] graduated as a Spanish language teacher first and then as a Master in Literature at the Universidad de Chile.

He published his first novel in 1999, Memorias prematuras (Premature memoirs), called "a book where the writer narrates his life; the exile with his family in France, his return to Chile, his failure with women, his first dabblings in journalism and university life" and "for many, the best he has ever written".

[2] He resided nearly four years in Spain and in 2004 he published his second novel, los platos rotos (The broken dishes), on which Gumucio has stated "it is very fictional non-fiction.

He is director of the Instituto de Estudios Humorísticos of the Universidad Diego Portales and comedian-host of the Desde Zero show on Radio Zero with Patricio Fernández and Claudia Álamo.