Francisco Coloane

Francisco Coloane Cárdenas ( born July 19, 1910 in Quemchi, Chiloe Island; † August 5, 2002 in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean writer, short stories and novels written mainly in Spanish. Some of his works have been translated into many languages ​​and adapted for theater and film. He is regarded as one of the discoverers of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia for literature.

Biography

Francisco Coloane Cárdenas came in 1910 as the son of chilotischen ship's captain Juan Agustín Coloane and the farmer Humiliana Cárdenas to the world. He studied at various places, but interrupted his education with the death of his mother from.

Together with his father, he traveled to the Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego he worked in the sheep, as foreman, clerk, sailor and roughrider.

He also worked on the magazine El Magallanes and was an official in the administration of the Armada de Chile. For much of his adult life Coloane was an active member of the Communist Party of Chile. Finally, he moved to Santiago de Chile, where he died in 2002.

Coloane as a writer

His collected in Tierra del Fuego experiences are reflected in his work with easy and agile style. His writings act in the extreme south of America, the children's novel The Last of the cabin boy Baquedano, for example, inspired by a trip on a sailing ship Baquedano in 1933.

For his work Coloane received the 1957 Premio de la Sociedad de Escritores, 1964 National Prize for Literature in Chile, in 1966 he became chairman of the Writers Society of Chile. 1980 he was appointed member of the Chilean Academy of Language in 2001 received the Order of Merit Coloane Gabriela Mistral, in France, he was awarded et des Lettres by the Ordre des Arts in 1997.

Some of his works have been translated into English, Russian, Swedish, Slovak, French, Czech, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Portuguese and translated German.

Works

The most outstanding works Coloanes are:

  • Cabo de Hornos ( Cape Horn ger, 1941)
  • El último de la Grumete Baquedano (Eng. The last cabin boy of Baquedano, 1941)
  • La Tierra del Fuego se Apaga (1945 )
  • Golfo de Penas (1945 )
  • Los conquistadores de la Antártida (1945 )
  • Tierra del Fuego ( Land of Fire German, 1956)
  • Viaje al Este (1958 )
  • El camino de la Ballena (1962 )
  • El Chilote Otey Relatos y otros (1971 )
  • Rastros del Guanaco Blanco ( 1980)
  • Crónicas de la India (1983 )
  • Velero Anclado (1995 )
  • Cuentos completos (1999)
  • Papeles recortados ( posthumously 2004)
  • Última carta ( posthumously 2005)
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