Pedro Prado

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Pedro Prado

Pedro Prado Calvo (born October 8, 1886 in Santiago de Chile , † January 31, 1952 in Viña del Mar ) was a Chilean writer .

Prado attended the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and then studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile . He also took painting courses with Pedro Lira and Juan Francisco González . In 1915 he was one of the founders of Los Diez , an avant-garde group of writers, painters, sculptors and architects that included Augusto d'Halmar , Eduardo Barrios , Manuel Magallanes Moore , Armando Donoso and Julio Bertrand Vidal . In 1920 he founded the Revista Contemporánea , in which he published works by Chilean and foreign authors. In 1921 he was appointed director of the Director del Museo de Bellas Artes . In 1943 he was elected President of the Sociedad de Escritores . For his literary work he was awarded the Premio Nacional in 1949 .

Works

  • Flores de cardo , poems, 1908
  • La casa abandonada , lyric prose, 1912
  • El llamado del mundo , poems, 1913
  • La reina de Rapa Nui , novel, 1914
  • Los diez, el claustro, la barca , poetry and prose, 1915
  • Los pajaros errantes , lyric prose, 1915
  • Ansayo sobre arquitectura y poesia , essay, 1916
  • Las copas , poems, 1919
  • Alsino , Roman, 1920
  • Karez y Roshan (en col. Con Antonio Castro Leal ) , poems, 1923
  • Un juez rural , novel, 1924
  • Androbar , dramatic lyric poetry, 1925
  • Camino de las horas , poems, 1934
  • Otono en las dunas , poems, 1940
  • Esta ciudad envenenada , poems, 1945
  • No mas que una rosa , poems, 1946
  • Las enstancias del amor (Poems, Selection and Introduction by Raúl Silva Castro ), 1946
  • Viejos poemas ineditos , poems, 1949

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personal data
SURNAME Prado, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prado Calvo, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1952
Place of death Viña del Mar