Fernando Santiván

Fernando Santiván , also Fernando Santibáñez Puga and Fernando Santiváñez Puga (born July 1, 1886 in Arauco , † July 12, 1973 in Valdivia ) was a Chilean writer and journalist.

After the death of his mother in 1894, Santiván grew up in Valparaíso, where he attended a Franciscan college . He continued his education at the Colegio Inglés in Viña de Mar, the Liceo de Hombre in Puerto, the Instituto Nacional and the Eschuela de Artes y Oficios and finally studied mathematics and Spanish literature at the Instituto Pedagogico of the Universidad de Chile .

In 1909 he made his debut as a writer with a collection of thirty short stories under the title Palpitaciones de vida . In 1910, his novel Ansia won first prize at the Concurso del Centenario , the competition marking the 100th anniversary of Chile's independence. In 1912 he took over the management of the magazine Pluma y Lápiz , the following year his second novel El crisol appeared . He had great success with readers and literary criticism in 1917 with La Hechizada .

In the next few years the novels En la montaña (1918) and Robles Blumey Cía appeared. (1920). In 1925 he moved to Valdevia and took over the management of El Correo de Valdivia . For several years he lived in Villarica and devoted himself to agriculture. In 1943 he returned to Valdivia and became Secretary General of the Universidad Austral de Chile . In 1951 he published the historical novel El mulato Riquelme

In 1952 Santiván became a member of the Academia Chilena la Lengua and received the Premio Nacional de Literatura . His Confesiones de Santiván appeared in 1955. In the Memorias de tolstoiano (1955) he recalled the time in the Colonia Tolstoiana , to which he had belonged in his youth alongside Augusto d'Halmar , Julio Ortiz de Zárate , Manuel Magallanes Moure and others. The Zig-Zag publishing house published an edition of Santiván's complete works in 1965 with a foreword by Ricardo Latcham . In 1973 Santiván died of a heart attack in the John Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia.

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SURNAME	Santiván, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Santibáñez Puga, Fernando; Santiváñez Puga, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arauco
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1973
Place of death	Valdivia