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Vicente Huidobro

Died in 1948

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was born on 10 January 1893 in Santiago, into a family of the Chilean aristocracy. In 1916, after a stay in Buenos Aires where he set out his theory of creationism, he went to Europe and settled in Paris, where in 1917 he contributed to Pierre Reverdy's review Nord-Sud. Back in Chile, he was proclaimed a candidate for the presidency by young progressives in 1925. A war correspondent in Europe at the end of the Second World War, he died on 2 January 1948 in his house in Cartagena.

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