Efraín Barquero

Efraín Barquero (3 May 1931 – 29 June 2020) was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2008.

Biography Barquero studied at the University of Chile in Santiago, with people such as Jorge Teillier, Pablo Guiñez and Rolando Cárdenas. Later he worked in Colombia during the government of Salvador Allende. Later he settled in France from 1975 in exile after the 1973 coup. He traveled and lived in various countries of Asia, Latin America and Europe in countries such as China, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba until 1990.

Works La piedra del pueblo (1954) La compañera (1956) Enjambre (1959) El pan del hombre (1960) El regreso (1961) Maula (1962) Poemas infantiles (1965) El viento de los reinos (1967) La compañera, poemas de amor (1969) Epifanías (1970) Arte de vida (1970) La compañera y otros poemas (1971) El poema negro de Chile (1976) Mujeres de oscuro (1992) A deshora (1992) El viejo y el niño (1993) La mesa de la tierra (1998) Antología (2000) El poema en el poema (2004) El pan y el vino (2008) El pacto de sangre (2009)