Gonzalo Rojas

Gonzalo Rojas was born on 20 December 1916 in Lebu. He studied law and literature at the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile and took part in the surrealist group Mandrágora. A teacher in Valparaíso, then at the University of Concepción, he held diplomatic posts in China and Cuba under Allende. After the coup d'état of 1973, he went into exile and taught in East Germany, then in Venezuela. Winner of the National Prize for Literature in 1992 and the Cervantes Prize in 2003, he died in Santiago on 25 April 2011.

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• PoetryLa miseria del hombreGonzalo Rojas · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature