Eduardo Barrios

Eduardo Barrios was born on 25 October 1884 in Valparaíso; after the death of his father, he spent his childhood and adolescence in Lima. Admitted to the Military School in 1900, he left it before graduating as an officer and travelled across the continent; he was a shopkeeper, a circus performer and a gold prospector. Having joined the National Library in 1925, he directed it from 1953, and was Minister of Education in 1927. Winner of the National Prize for Literature in 1946, he died in Santiago on 13 September 1963.

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• NovelBrother AssEl hermano asnoEduardo Barrios · 1922Literature