Ángel Cruchaga Santa María

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Ángel Cruchaga Santa María

Ángel Cruchaga Santa María (born March 23, 1893 in Santiago , Chile , † September 5, 1964 ibid) was a Chilean writer and poet. He was particularly well known for his extensive lyrical production with religious motifs.

Life

Ángel Cruchaga came from an aristocratic but impoverished family and enjoyed a privileged school education. He was heavily influenced by the French poets Charles Baudelaire , Arthur Rimbaud and Tristan Corbière . Although he was very avant-garde in style, at the latest by Job (1922) he increasingly devoted himself to religious motifs. He is considered one of the most influential authors of his generation and was one of the most prominent Chilean poets in the 1930s, along with Pablo Neruda , Gabriela Mistral and Vicente Huidobro . He published in several magazines and newspapers. Some volumes of poetry were first published in France or Spain. In 1928 he founded the magazine Letras with other poets . In 1937 he translated André Maurois ' History of England . He has received various literary prizes, in particular the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1948.

Works

Poetry

  • Las Manos Juntas (1915)
  • La Selva Prometida (1920)
  • Job (1922)
  • Los mástiles de oro (1923)
  • La ciudad invisible (1928)
  • Afán del Corazón (1933)
  • Paso de Sombra (1939)
  • Rostro de Chile (1955)
  • Anillo de Jade (1959)
  • Noche de las noches (1963)

Stage plays

  • El mesías (1932)

Novels

  • Median week

Awards

literature

  • Hugo Montes, Julio Orlandi (ed.): Historia y Antología de la literatura chilena . Editorial del Pacífico, Santiago de Chile 1965 (former title: Historia de la literatura chilena ).
  • Naín Nómez (ed.): Antología Crítica de la Poesía Chilena, Vol. 1: Fundación nacional, modernismo y crítica social . LOM Ediciones, Santiago de Chile 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Montes, Julio Orlandi (ed.): Historia y Antología de la literatura chilena . Editorial del Pacífico, Santiago de Chile 1965, p. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Cruchaga Santa María, Angel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago , Chile
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1964
Place of death Santiago , Chile