Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga was born on 31 December 1878 in Salto, Uruguay; a few months later, his father was killed by a gunshot that went off by accident, and his stepfather killed himself a few years afterwards. He founded a magazine in his town in 1899. While cleaning the weapon meant for a friend's duel, he killed him by accident; he then left Uruguay for Buenos Aires, where he taught Spanish. Settled in 1908 on land in Misiones, he lost his first wife there in 1915, then worked at the Uruguayan consulate. He took his own life in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1937.

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• Short storiesTales of Love, Madness and DeathCuentos de amor de locura y de muerteHoracio Quiroga · 1917Literature