Fernando Santiván
Fernando Santiván (pseudonym of Fernando Antonio Santibañez Puga, 1 July 1886 12 July 1973) was a Chilean writer renowned for winning the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1952. Life and career Early life Born in Arauco, Chile, Arauco, Santiván was the son of a Spaniard father and Chilean mother. At the age of 8, with the death of his mother, he was sent to the port city of Valparaiso, where he attended several schools. Later, he attended the prestigious "Instituto Nacional" and the School of Arts & Crafts, from which he was expelled for his Tolstoyan anarchist activities. For a short time, he entered the Pedagogic Institute of the Universidad de Chile, studying maths and Castilian Spanish. Anarchist organizing After abandoning university studies, he founded a "Tolstoyan Colony" with writer Augusto d'Halmar and painter Julio Ortiz de Zárate on land gifted from the poet Manuel Magallanes Moure. The colony was founded to practice the ideals of a simple and well-lived ...
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