Francisco Coloane

Francisco Coloane was born on 19 July 1910 in Quemchi, on the island of Chiloé, the son of a whaling captain. He served in the Navy; Memoria Chilena also cites, as early as 1929, a job as an apprentice foreman on an estancia in Tierra del Fuego and oil expeditions in Magallanes, and Biografías y Vidas mentions years as a sailor, shepherd and sea-wolf hunter. A journalist, he presided over the Society of Writers of Chile and in 1980 entered the Chilean Academy of the Language. Winner of the National Prize for Literature in 1964 and made a Knight of Arts and Letters in France, he died in Santiago on 5 August 2002.

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• Short storiesCape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the WorldCabo de HornosFrancisco Coloane · 1941Literature