Jorge Inostroza

Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas (30 March 1919 – 5 January 1975) was a Chilean novelist, biographer, journalist, and screenwriter for radio, theater, and television. By his own account, "he lived to write and for what he gained from writing." Upon his death, he had more than 30 titles under his belt, as well as lyrics, poems, and a significant number of scripts for film, radio, and television.

Family life and studies Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas was the son of a lawyer and a history teacher, concert pianist, and poet. His father died when he was thirteen years old and, with his mother and five brothers, he settled in Santiago, where he worked to pay for his schooling. He attended Internado Nacional Barros Arana, and later studied for a degree in pedagogy of history which he did not complete.

He was an agnostic, a , and a boxing lover. On that station in 1948, he premiered his work Adiós al Séptimo de Línea, one of the most successful Chilean radio programs. Later, it was adapted into a and inspired a comic by Isidro Arteaga in 1960, a musical piece, the album Al Séptimo de Línea by the group in 1966,

Literary career Inostrosa Cuevas dictated his books and even his radio scripts, which went on the air almost without corrections. In the early 1950s, he adapted his scripts into books.

Selected works (5 volumes), 1955 Bajo las banderas del Libertador (3 volumes), 1959 Hidalgos del mar, Prat y Grau, 1959 El corregidor de Cal y Canto, 1960 La justicia de los Maurelio, 1961 El rescatado por Dios, 1962 Fantasmas y retratos de la tradición, 1963 Los húsares trágicos (4 volumes), 1965 Huella de siglos, 1966 Se las echó el Buin, 1970 Siempre una mujer, 1974 , 1976 (posthumous)