Manuel Rojas (author)
Manuel Rojas Seplveda was a Chilean writer and journalist.
Rojas was born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Chilean parents. In 1899 his family returned to Santiago, but in 1903, after the fathers death, the mother returned to Buenos Aires again, where he attended school until the age of eleven. In 1912, at the age of sixteen, he decided to return alone to Chile. Once he arrived to the country, he got involved with intellectuals and anarchist groups, while working in many different activities as an unskilled labourer as house painter, electrician, agricultural worker, railroad handyman, loading ships, tailors apprentice, cobbler, ship guard, and actor in smalltime itinerant groups. Many of the situations and characters he encountered there later became part of his fictional world.
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