Eduardo Barrios was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

an writer and poet born in

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on October 25, 1884 and died in Santiago on September 13, 1963.

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After his father's death, at the age of 5 his family moved to

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

until the age of 15. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood travelling throughout Latin America doing a colorful array of jobs to earn a living. By 1915 he was back in Chile working for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including La Mañana, Zig Zag, revista Pacifico and revista Atenea. From 1925 to 1959 he held various positions in government, museums and the local Press. He was elected to the Chilean, Argentinian and the Brazilian Academy of Writers. He obtained the

Chilean National Prize for Literature {{Use dmy dates, date=October 2020 In Chile, the National Prize for Literature ''(Premio Nacional de Literatura)'' was created by Law No. 7,368 during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos on 8 November 1942. It consists of a lump-sum monetary prize ...

in 1946.

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* Del natural, cuento, 1907 * Mercedes en el tiempo, teatro, 1910 * Lo que niega la vida y por el decoro, teatro, 1913 * El niño que enloqueció de amor, novela, 1915 * Vivir, teatro, 1916 * Un Perdido, novela, 1917 * Papá y mamá, cuento, 1920 * El Hermano Asno, novela, 1922 * Páginas de un pobre diablo, cuento, 1923 * Y la vida sigue, novela, 1925 * Tamarugal, novela 1944 * Teatro escogido, 1947 * Gran Señor y Rajadiablos, novela, 1948 * Los Hombres del Hombre, 1950

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escritores.cl 1884 births 1963 deaths Chilean male writers National Prize for Literature (Chile) winners Chilean expatriates in Peru {{Chile-writer-stub

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