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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
Apr 3, 2024 · Horacio Quiroga (born December 31, 1878, Salto, Uruguay—died February 19, 1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan-born short-story writer whose imaginative portrayal of the struggle of humans and animals to survive in the tropical jungle earned him recognition as a master of the short story.
Apr 2, 2014 · Uruguayan-born writer Horacio Quiroga penned short stories inspired by the jungle before committing suicide in 1937. He is considered among the greatest Latin American storytellers of all time....
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza ( Salto, Uruguay; 31 de diciembre de 1878- Buenos Aires, Argentina; 19 de febrero de 1937) fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo.
Horacio Quiroga. (Salto, 1878 - Buenos Aires, 1937) Narrador uruguayo radicado en Argentina, considerado uno de los mayores cuentistas latinoamericanos de todos los tiempos, cuya obra se sitúa entre la declinación del modernismo y la emergencia de las vanguardias.
Nov 27, 2023 · Horacio Quiroga was a Uruguayan author, playwright, and poet considered one of the most prominent Latin American short story writers, the founder of a tradition that continues to this day, and heir to the American short story writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Jul 5, 2021 · Horacio Quiroga was born on December 31, 1878, in Salto, Uruguay. In 1901, he published his first collection of poems, Coral Reefs . Over the next 30 years, he wrote and published more than 200 dark stories. Jungle life inspired many of these stories.
