Mariano Latorre

Mariano Latorre was born on 4 January 1886 in Cobquecura, into a family of Basque descent, and grew up in Constitución and then in Talca. He studied law for three years at the University of Chile, gave it up when he lost his father, and, on leaving the Pedagogical Institute, became a teacher of Castilian in 1915. Regarded by critics as the master of Chilean criollismo, he received the National Prize for Literature in 1944 and died in Santiago in November 1955.

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• NovelZurzulitaMariano Latorre · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature