Armando Donoso
Armando Donoso (born September 18, 1886 in Talca , † January 17, 1946 in New York City ) was a Chilean essayist, journalist, editor and literary critic.
Donoso, who had studied with Enrique Molina Garmendia , was the most important Chilean literary critic of his time. He wrote reviews for the El Diario Ilustrado and was editorial secretary and deputy editor-in-chief of El Mercurio . From 1913 to 1921 he also wrote articles for Pacífico Magazine . He has also written for Zig-Zag , Pluma de Lapíz , Los Diez , Revista de Artes y Leteras , Revista Chilena , Anales de Universidad de Chile , José Ingenieros ' Revista de Filosofia and other Latin American and Spanish magazines.
He published a critical edition of the complete works of Carlos Pezoa Véliz as well as new editions of collected works by Rubén Darío and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , a monograph on the Spanish writer Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and a biography of Pedro Antonio González . In addition to Julio Ortiz de Zárate , Pedro Prado , Juan Francisco González , Manuel Magallanes Moure , Augusto d'Halmar , Julio Bertrand Vidal and others, he was part of the Grupo de los Diez .
In 1925 he traveled to Madrid with his wife, the poet María Monvel . Here his most important work, La otra América, appeared with a foreword by Enrique Díez Canedo . Donoso died in New York in 1946 as a result of an operation.
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- La Literatura crítica de Chile: antología con estudio preliminar , Andres Bello Verlag 1969, p. 28ff.
- Memoria Chilena - Armando Donoso (1886–1946)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donoso, Armando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean essayist, journalist, editor and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Talca |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1946 |
| Place of death | New York City |