Pablo de Rokha

Carlos Díaz Loyola, who wrote as Pablo de Rokha, was born on 17 October 1894 in Licantén. Expelled in 1911 from the seminary of Talca for having read and lent out Rabelais and Voltaire, he married Luisa Anabalón Sanderson in 1916, who wrote as Winétt de Rokha. He published and sold his own books himself and attacked Neruda in a long polemical essay of 1955. He was awarded the national prize for literature in 1965; he took his own life on 10 September 1968.

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• PoetryLos gemidosPablo de Rokha · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature