As If No One Had Died is a novel by Chilean author Poli Délano, translated from its original Spanish by Maggie Russell-Ciardi. It is a complex, polyphonic reflection on a critical moment in Chile's history-the years leading up to and immediately following the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende and installed the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

The novel was written while Pinochet was still in power, when giving voice to those who were disappeared under his regime was a profoundly political act, a courageous insistence that it must not be as if no one had died.