Salvador Reyes Figueroa

Salvador Reyes Figueroa was a Chilean writer who won the 1967 Chilean National Prize for Literature.

Biography He was born in Copiapó to Arturo Reyes and Luisa Figueroa on August 16, 1899. He first studied at the Instituto Comercial de Antofagasta (Antofagasta Commercial College).

He travelled to North Chile, then lived in Valparaíso. By the end of 1920, he moved to Santiago, where he began working as a journalist. He wrote for Zig-Zag, Las Últimas Noticias, and Hoy under the nickname "Simbad".

In 1939, President Pedro Aguirre Cerda anointed him as consul in Paris. Eventually he also had high diplomatic positions in Barcelona, London, Rome, Haiti

He obtained the National Literature Prize in 1967. He died in Santiago, on February 27, 1970.

Postmortem recognition Between 1990 and 1999, his collection was displayed in the Wulff Castle, in Viña del Mar.

Works The following is a list of his works in their original title (in Spanish), kind and year of publication.

Barco ebrio, Poetry, 1923. El último pirata, Stories, 1925. El matador de tiburones, Novel, 1926. El café del puerto, Novel, 1927. Los tripulantes de la noche, Tales, 1929. Las mareas del sur, Poetry, 1930. Lo que el tiempo deja, Tales, 1932. Tres novelas de la costa, Novel, 1934. Ruta de sangre, Novel, 1935. Piel nocturna, Novel, 1936. Norte y sur, Short Novels, 1947. Mónica Sanders, Novel, 1951. Valparaíso, puerto de nostalgias, Novel, 1955. El continente de los hombres solos, Chronicles, 1956. Rostros sin máscaras, Interviews, 1957. Los amantes desunidos, Novel, 1959. Los defraudados, Tales, 1963. El incendio del astillero, Tales, 1964. Andanzas por el desierto de Atacama, Chronicles, 1966. Fuego en la frontera, Essay, 1968. La redención de las sirenas, Theater, 1968. Crónicas de Oriente, Chronicles, 1973.