Augusto d'Halmar

Augusto Goemine Thomson, known as Augusto d'Halmar, was born on 23 April 1882 in Santiago, the son of a French navigator. He left the seminary in 1899 to devote himself to letters and in 1904, with Fernando Santiván, founded a Tolstoyan colony. Consul of Chile in India from 1907, he then lived for many years in Spain and returned only in 1934, according to Memoria Chilena. The first winner of the national prize for literature, in 1942, he died on 27 January 1950.

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• NovelPasión y muerte del cura DeustoAugusto d'Halmar · 1924not translated into EnglishLiterature