Armando Chirveches

Armando Chirveches was born in La Paz in 1881 and studied law, which led him to the profession of lawyer. He began with poetry before turning to the novel, in which he portrays the Bolivian society of his time with an irony that is often bitter. A diplomat, he spent long years outside the country, in the Americas as in Europe, and ended up living in Paris, kept away from Bolivia after the political changes of 1920. It was there that he took his own life, in 1926.

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• NovelLa candidatura de RojasArmando Chirveches · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature