Máximo Soto Hall

Máximo Soto Hall was born on 5 July 1871 in Guatemala, half-brother of a president of Honduras. Legation secretary in Madrid at twenty-one, he lived in Paris, London and Italy, then settled in Costa Rica in 1896 as a diplomatic representative, wrote for several newspapers there and edited a review, entering the intellectual circle of Rafael Iglesias's authoritarian government. A diplomatic agent of the Guatemalan dictator Estrada Cabrera until 1919, he then left for Buenos Aires, where he was a journalist at La Prensa. He died in 1944.

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• NovelEl problemaMáximo Soto Hall · 1899not translated into EnglishLiterature