Marta Brunet

Marta Brunet was born in Chillán on 9 August 1897. Educated mostly at home, she travelled in Europe with her parents during her adolescence. From 1934 to 1939 she edited the journal La Familia, according to Biografías y Vidas, then in 1939 became consul in La Plata and pursued a consular and diplomatic career in Buenos Aires, then in Uruguay. National Prize for Literature in 1961, the second woman to receive it after Gabriela Mistral, she died in Montevideo on 27 October 1967, while reading, according to Biografías y Vidas, her reception speech to the Uruguayan Academy of Letters.

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• NovelMontaña adentroMarta Brunet · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature