Alberto Blest Gana

Alberto Blest Gana was born in Santiago on 4 May 1830; his father, Guillermo Cunningham Blest, was an Irish physician according to the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. A pupil at the military school, he left in 1847 to continue his military studies in France and returned in 1851. A teacher at the military school, he won the University of Chile's novel competition in 1860. Chargé d'affaires in Washington in 1866, then minister plenipotentiary in London and in Paris, he lived in France for the rest of his life and died in Paris in November 1920.

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• NovelMartín RivasAlberto Blest Gana · 1862LiteraturePublic domain