Manuel Rojas

Manuel Rojas (born Jan. 8, 1896, Buenos Aires—died March 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean novelist and short-story writer. As a youth, Rojas traveled along the Argentine and Chilean border while working as an unskilled labourer. Many of the situations and characters he encountered there later became part of his fictional world. He became a linotype operator and ultimately worked on Santiago newspapers and in the national library, and from 1931 he was...