Juan Emar

Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi, who signed as Juan Emar, was born in Santiago on 13 November 1893, the son of Eliodoro Yáñez, owner of the daily La Nación. Settled in Paris from 1919, he studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and worked at the Chilean legation; from 1923 to 1925 he defended modern art against criollismo in his father's newspaper. He published three short novels in 1935, then from 1942 worked on a manuscript of more than four thousand pages, published in full in 1996. He died in Santiago on 8 April 1964.

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• NovelMiltín 1934Juan Emar · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature