Manuel Magallanes Moure

Manuel Magallanes Moure (born November 8, 1878 in La Serena , † January 19, 1924 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean writer, literary critic and painter.

Magallanes studied in Santiago, but started working for various magazines at an early age. From 1902 he wrote literary reviews for Las Últimas Noticias and El Mercurio , edited the magazine Chile Ilustrado and published his own poems in Zig Zag y Juventud . During this time, his first volumes of poetry, Facetas (1902) and Matices (1904), were published.

In 1904 he joined the Grupo Tolstoyana around Julio Ortiz de Zárate , Augusto D'Halmar and Fernando Santiván . In 1911 he founded the magazine La Reforma , which was published until 1916. As president of the Asociación de Artistas y Escritores de Chile , he was responsible for the Los Juegos Florales competition in 1914 , at which Gabriela Mistral presented her Los sonetos de la muerte .

With authors such as Julio Ortiz de Zárate , Pedro Prado , Juan Francisco González , Armando Donoso , Augusto Dhalmar and Julio Bertrand Vidal , he formed the Grupo de los Diez in 1916 . In 1916 he held a public exhibition of his paintings. In 1918 he founded the Sociedad de Conferencias Publicas . 1922-23 he went on a trip to Europe. After that he lived in San Bernardo, where he had had a second residence since the beginning of the century. Pedro Prado published a selection of his best poems ( Sus mejores poemas ) in 1926 .

Works

Facetas , poems, 1902
Matices , poems, 1904
La Jornada , poems, 1910
La batalla, lluvia de primavera , drama, 1912
¿Qué es amor? , Short stories, 1915
La casa junto al mar , poems, 1918
Florilegio , poems, 1921
Sus mejores poemas , (Selection by Pedro Prado), 1926

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personal data
SURNAME	Magallanes Moure, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean writer, literary critic and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Serena
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1924
Place of death	Santiago de Chile