Oliver Welden (1946 in Santiago, Chile - 31 January 2021) was an award-winning poet.
In 1968, he received the Luis Tello National Poetry Award of the Society of Chilean Writers for Perro del Amor, a collection of 23 of his poems. In the 1960s, Welden and his wife, Alicia Galaz Vivar, also published a poetry journal in Chile called Tebaida (Thebes).[1] [2]