Marina Latorre Uribe (born 14 August 1925) is a Chilean writer, journalist and gallerist.

Life

Latorre was born in Punta Arenas, Chile. In the 1940s, she moved to Santiago to pursue a career as a literature teacher at Universidad de Chile. During that same period, she married Eduardo Bolt, with whom she founded the Bolt Art Gallery, at Londres #92, in the heart of the cultural and historic Santiago Neighborhood

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. In 1965, Latorre founded the Literature magazine "Portal" with

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

as a collaborator, including, then inedit, poems such as "Corona del archipiélago para Rubén Azócar" (which triggered Neruda's famous rivalry with Pablo de Rokha), "Corbata para Nicanor Parra" and "Oda al hombre sencillo". Among the writers published in its pages were Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Nicolás Guillén,

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, Francisco Coloane,

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and Leopoldo Castedo. At the same time Latorre debuted as a writer herself with the Short Story collection "Galería clausurada" (1964), beginning a writing career that has included fiction, essay, memoires and, mostly, poetry, receiving special attention by important critics and writers of its time, like Hernan del Solar,

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Prizes

1973: Best Essay

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for "El incendio de la Federación Obrera de Magallanes", essay about the 1920 Arson attack and fire on the Federación Obrera de Magallanes (award ceremony was suspended due to

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. Finally awarded, and published, in 2012).

Bibliography

* ''Galería clausurada'', short stories, 1964. * ''Latinoamérica te amo'', collection of articles published in La Nación (Chile), 1972. * ''Soy una mujer'', testimony, 1973. * ''El monumento'', short story, 1973. * ''

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a través de

, Juvencio Valle y

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'', essay, 1973. * ''El regalo'', short story, 1974. (translated to Greek by Neruda's translator

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) * ''Fauna austral'', poetry, 1977. * ''¿Cuál es el dios que pasa?'', novel,

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, 1978. * ''Ventisquero'', poetry, 1981. * ''Habitante de un mundo mágico'', memoires, 1987. * ''Mi Poesía Magallánica'', poetry, 2011. * ''El incendio de la Federación Obrera de Magallanes'', essay, 2012. * ''

: poeta. El privilegio de su amistad'', memoires, University of Magallanes Ediciones, 2013. * '' Desolación de Gabriela Mistral en Magallanes Confín del Mundo'', essay, 2014. * ''Galería clausurada'' (reedition, including "Soy una mujer" and "El regalo"),

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Ediciones, 2021.

References

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