Patricio Manns
Patricio Manns is a Chilean composer, author, poet, novelist, essayist, play writer and journalist.
Patricio Manns was born in the rural town of Nacimiento, in the south of Chile onAugust 1937. He is the son of a primary school teacher of French descent and an agricultural engineer of German descent. Both of his parents played the piano his father was a jazz aficionado but his mother studied classical piano. His mother was also central in cultivating his interest in literature. In his youth he took up a broad range of occupations from coal miner in Lota to reporter for the daily newspaper La patria in Concepcin. At the beginning of the 1963s he moved to Santiago where he continued his journalistic work.
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