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- Died
- Chilean poet and novelist Vicente Huidobro was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1893, into one of the most prominent families in the country. He received his education at the Jesuit College of Santiago and in France at the Berthelot Lyceum, where he studied law. He soon changed his studies to medicine, and began writing books and became an editor of several different Chilean magazines. His first volume of poetry, "La Gruta del Silencio", scandalized Chilean critics. He traveled to Paris, and in 1916 co-founded, with Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reveedy, the artistic and literary review "Nord Sud".
He stayed in Paris throughout World War I but left in 1918, worn out by the wartime conditions and tribulations of Paris, and went to Madrid, Spain. When the war ended he returned to Chile. By this time he was a controversial figure in art and literary circles, with passionate defenders and just as passionate detractors.
When the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1937 he returned to Madrid to offer what assistance he could to the Loyalists, and stayed there for three months. After the Loyalist defeat and the takeover of Spain by the fascist forces of Gen. Francisco Franco, he returned to Chile again, settling in Santiago.
He died in Cartegena, Chile, in 1948.
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- SpouseManuela Bello Portales(1912 - January 2, 1948) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- Chile printed several postage stamps of portraits of Huidobro, including in 1986 and 1993.
- In 1923, he published "Finis Britannia", a critique of the British empire, which provoked antipathy from the British and resulted in him receiving a postcard in support from Mahatma Gandhi. In 1924 he was -arguably- kidnapped for this reason, disappearing for three days. Later in an interview, he briefly commented that the perpetrators of the kidnap were two "Irish scouts" but refused to give more details.
- In 1926, he published a fragment of what would become the fourth canto of "Altazor" (the magnum opus of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro), in "Panorama".
- Huidobro continued with his diverse artistic activities in Europe, producing the third edition of "Création", where he published his "Manifeste peut-être" (Maybe Manifesto). Collaborator in this edition included Tristan Tzara, René Crevel, Juan Larrea and Erik Satie. He joined the French Masonic Lodge and met Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno, who was exiled in Paris at the time.
- In 1934 he wrote film reviews for Santiago magazines and newspapers, and published "La Próxima" (The Next) (Santiago, Walton); "Papá o el diario de Alicia Mir" (Father, or the diary of Alicia Mir) (Santiago, Walton), a novel written as a diary; and the play "En la Luna" (In the Moon) (Santiago, Ercilla).
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