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Manuel Rojas

Died in 1973

Manuel Rojas was born in Buenos Aires in 1896 to Chilean parents and settled in Chile in 1912; according to Memoria Chilena, he crossed the Andes on foot by way of the Cajón del Maipo. He was a house painter, electrician, farm labourer, railway labourer, apprentice tailor and actor in travelling troupes, frequented anarchist circles, wrote for Los Tiempos and Las Últimas Noticias, then worked for the University of Chile. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1957 and died in Santiago on 11 March 1973.

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