Mariano Lautaro Latorre Court (4 January 1886 – 10 November 1955) was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

an writer of

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descent. He won the

Chilean National Prize for Literature {{Use dmy dates, date=October 2020 In Chile, the National Prize for Literature ''(Premio Nacional de Literatura)'' was created by Law No. 7,368 during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos on 8 November 1942. It consists of a lump-sum monetary prize ...

in 1944.

Works

Notable works: * Cuentos del Maule (1912) * Cuna de Cóndores (1918) * Zurzulita (1920) * Ully (1923) * Chilenos del Mar (1929) * On Panta (1935) * Hombres y Zorros (1937) * La Literatura de Chile (1941) * Mapu (1942) * Viento de Mallines (1944) * El Choroy de Oro (1946) * Chile, País de Rincones (1947) * El Caracol (1952) * La Paquera (1958) * La Isla de los Pájaros (1959) * Memorias y otras confidencias (published in 1971)

References

1886 births 1955 deaths Chilean male writers Chilean people of Basque descent National Prize for Literature (Chile) winners {{Chile-writer-stub