Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer.

Horacio Quiroga was born in 1878 as the sixth child and second son of Prudencio Quiroga and Pastora Forteza, a middleclass family. At the time of his birth, his father worked foryears as head of the ViceConsulate Argentine Break. Before Quiroga was two and a half months old, on Marchof 1879 his father accidentally fired a gun he carried in his hand and died. Quiroga was baptized just about three months later in the parish of his birth town.

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