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Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel ˈroxas]; January 8, 1896 – March 11, 1973) was a Chilean writer and journalist. Biography. Rojas was born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Chilean parents.
Manuel Rojas 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.
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Manuel Rojas ( b. 8 January 1896; d. 11 March 1973), Chilean novelist. The most important storyteller and novelist of his generation, Rojas received the National Award of Literature in 1957.
Manuel Rojas. Nació en Buenos Aires el 8 de enero de 1896, hijo de Manuel Rojas Córdoba y Dorotea Sepúlveda, ambos chilenos. A pesar de pasar un par de años en Chile, su madre ya viuda volvió a Argentina en 1903. Manuel estudió hasta los 11 años en ese país.
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Manuel Rojas was one of the most important Chilean and Latin American storytellers of the 20th century. Born in Argentina in 1896 to Chilean parents, Rojas settled down definitively in Chile in 1912, where he autodidactically worked on and developed his literary art.
Manuel Rojas has 75 books on Goodreads with 5093 ratings. Manuel Rojas’s most popular book is Hijo de ladrón.
Manuel Rojas was born on January 8, 1896, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; he died on March 11, 1973, in his adopted homeland, Chile. His family moved to Chile in 1899 and from then until 1922 they wandered back and forth between Chile and Argentina, working a variety of jobs to earn a meager living.
