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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
Horacio Quiroga (born December 31, 1878, Salto, Uruguay—died February 19, 1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan-born short-story writer whose imaginative portrayal of the struggle of humans and animals to survive in the tropical jungle earned him recognition as a master of the short story.
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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza ( Salto, Uruguay; 31 de diciembre de 1878- Buenos Aires, Argentina; 19 de febrero de 1937) fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo.
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Nov 27, 2023 · Learn about the Uruguayan author of macabre and jungle stories, who influenced Latin American literature and committed suicide at 58. Explore his biography, his travels, his literary group, and his famous "Ten Commandments for the Perfect Storyteller".
Apr 2, 2014 · Uruguayan-born writer Horacio Quiroga penned short stories inspired by the jungle before committing suicide in 1937. He is considered among the greatest Latin American storytellers of all...
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
Though famous to readers of Spanish American literature exclusively for his short fiction, Horacio Quiroga wrote, to a limited degree and with equally limited success, in other forms as well.
