Joaquín Edwards Bello (; 10 May 1887–19 February 19 1968) was a
Chilean writer
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and
journalist
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of
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descent.
Life
Joaquín Edwards Bello was born on the 10 May 1887, in
Valparaíso
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to Ana Luisa Bello Rozas and Joaquín Edwards Garriga.
Edwards studied at
The Mackay School and later at the . To complete his education, his family decided in 1904 to send him to Europe. Edwards' first
novel
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, ''El inútil'' (''The Useless One'' would be the translation), generated such reactions in
Santiago
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that he emigrated to Brazil for some time. The main character was Eduardo Briset Lacerda, a rich young man with social conscience, like Edwards.
Edward Bello was a strong supporter of the
National Socialist Movement of Chile.
[Möller Roth, M. (2000). ''El Movimiento Nacional Socialista Chileno (1932-1938)''. Tesis de Licenciatura en Historia (Santiago: ]Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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), p. 161.
Suffering from
Hemiparesis
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, Edwards Bello shot himself in 1968.
Awards
*
Atenea Award,
University of Concepción (1932)
*''Premio Marcial Martínez'' (1934)
*''Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile'' (1943)
[
* National Prize for Journalism (1959)][
*Decoration ''Hijo Ilustre de Valparaíso'' (1958)
]
Bibliography
* ''El inútil'' (Santiago, Imprenta y Litografía Universo, 1910)
* ''El mounstruo: novela de costumbres chilenas'' (Imprenta La Ilustración)
* ''El roto'' (Santiago, Editorial Chilena, 1920)
* ''La muerte de Vanderbilt'' (Cóndor, 1922)
* ''El nacionalismo continental'' (Madrid, Imp. G. Hernández y Galo Sáez, 1925; ampliada con 2ª y 3ª partes, Santiago, Ediciones Ercilla, 1935)
* ''El chileno en Madrid'' (Santiago, Nascimento, 1928)
* ''Cap Polonio'' (La novela nueva, 1929)
* ''Valparaíso, la ciudad del viento'' (Santiago, Nascimento, 1931).
* ''Criollos en París'' (Santiago, Nascimento, 1933)
* ''La chica del Crillón'' (Santiago, Ercilla, 1935)
* ''Crónicas'' (Santiago, Zig-Zag, 1964)
See also
* Edwards family
References
External links
Memoria Chilena - Joaquín Edwards BelloJoaquín Edwards Bello
recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on August 8, 1977.
1887 births
1968 suicides
1968 deaths
J
Bello family
Eduardo de la Barra Lyceum alumni
The Mackay School alumni
Chilean male novelists
20th-century Chilean male writers
Chilean Nazis
National Socialist Movement of Chile politicians
Chilean male non-fiction writers
Chilean people of Canarian descent
Chilean people of Venezuelan descent
Chilean people of Welsh descent
Members of the Chilean Academy of Language
Writers from Valparaíso
National Prize for Literature (Chile) winners
Suicides by firearm in Chile
20th-century Chilean novelists
20th-century Chilean journalists
Nazis who died by suicide
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