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«Coloane has skillfully painted the life and landscapes of the extreme Chilean South […] His Magellanic tales earned him the nickname of the Chilean Jack London.» César Aira

«His stories are about the most desolate spaces on the American continent, codifying them under a cosmic conception […] They account for a forgotten world, of a Chilean South so real that it borders the limits of the imagined.» Lina Meruane

"Reading Coloane, who has lived everything he writes, is like an oxygen bomb that explodes in the heart of the reader, giving him a very heady and narcotizing sensation." El País

“He’s like an Archimede or a Michelangelo of the pen, a great image builder. " Il Giorno

“A writer who resembles no one, and whose work has the harsh and strong flavor of those clandestine spirits made by distillers of the past." Le Figaro

Author Biography

(Chiloé, Chile, 1910 - Santiago, Chile, 2002). 

Together with Pablo Neruda, he is one of the most important Chilean writers of the 20th century. Another Chilean author, Luis Sepúlveda, saw Coloane as his master. This natural born storyteller from Patagonia, is a classic in Chilean literature and a must for students in Chilean schools during the past 40 years. He worked as a sheepdog, foreman, sailor and stage actor and was part of the first Chilean expedition to Antarctica. Later he settled in Santiago, where he developed a prolific career in newspapers such as El Mercurio, La Nación, Las Últimas Noticias, and in the magazine Zig-Zag. He won numerous prizes, among which the National Literature Award in 1964. His books have been translated into French, Italian, German, Greek, Polish, Dutch and Portuguese His short story "Tierra del Fuego" was adapted for the cinema by Miguel Littin.

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