Augusto d'Halmar
Augusto Goemine Thomson , better known as Augusto d'Halmar (born April 23, 1882 in Santiago de Chile , † January 27, 1950 ) was a Chilean writer . He was a proponent of naturalism . He was awarded the Premio Atenea in 1934 and the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile in 1942 .
Life
Augusto d'Halmar was born to a French navigator and a Chilean woman. His father left his mother before he was born. When he was ten years old, his mother died. In 1899 he left school and devoted himself to writing. He took his pseudonym d'Halmar from a great-grandfather of Swedish origin.
From 1900 he worked as an editor for the magazine Luz y Sombra , later for various other magazines. At the age of 20, he published his first novel, Juana Lucero , the story of a woman in the bohemian district of Yungay, where he lived himself.
With Fernando Santiván and other authors, he founded the Colonia Tolstoiana in southern Chile in 1904 , where they wanted to live simply and naturally, following the example of Tolstoy, free from the constraints of civilization. Although the experiment failed, it had a major impact on the Chilean authors of those years.
Augusto d'Halmar became Secretary of Foreign Minister Federico Puga Borne , by whom he was appointed Consul General of Chile in Calcutta (British India) (1907-1909) and Peru (until 1915). He then lived for several years in Spain, where he was active as a literary artist.
In 1950 d'Halmar died. His grave inscription reads: No vi nada, sino el mundo; nada me pasó, sino la vida.
Fonts
- Juana Lucero , Roman (1902); Republished in 1934 as La Lucero
- Via crucis (1906)
- Al caer la tarde , play (1907)
- La lámpara en el molino , novel (1914)
- Los Alucinados , novel (1917)
- La Gatita , novella (1917)
- La sombra del humo en el espejo , novel (1918)
- Nirvana , poems (1918)
- Mi otro yo , poems (1920)
- Cuatro evangélicos en uno (1922)
- Via Crucis (1923)
- Passion y muerte del cura Deusto (1924)
- La Mancha de Don Quixote (1934)
- Capitanes sin barco, tres novelas , poems (1934)
- Catita y otras narraciones, cuentos (1935)
- Amor, cara y cruz, novela y cuentos (1935)
- Lo que no se ha dicho sobre la actual revolución española , poems (1936)
- Rubén Darío y los americanos en París (1941)
- Palabras para canciones , poems (1942)
- Mar, novela poemática (1945)
- Carlos V en Yuste y Castilla (1945)
- Cristián y yo, cuentos (1946)
- Lot 21 , essay (1948)
- Cursos de oratoria (1949)
- Recuerdos olvidados , Memories (posthumously) (1975)
Web links
- portrait
- Literature by and about Augusto d'Halmar in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Augusto D'Halmar. Retrieved October 23, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halmar, Augusto d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomson, Augusto Goemine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1950 |