Nicomedes Guzmán

Óscar Nicomedes Vásquez Guzmán, known as Nicomedes Guzmán, was born in Santiago on 25 June 1914, into a working-class family; his father was, among other things, a tram driver. He worked young in printing, published drawings and chronicles in El Peneca from 1931 to 1937, then ran the Ediciones Cultura and compiled anthologies of Baldomero Lillo, Marta Brunet and Pezoa Véliz. A major figure of the generation of 1938, he died in Santiago in 1964.

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• NovelLa sangre y la esperanzaNicomedes Guzmán · 1943not translated into EnglishLiterature