Ernesto Montenegro

Ernesto Montenegro
Caricature of Montenegro winning the 1910 Floral Games
Born1885 (1885)
El Almendral, San Felipe, Chile
Died17 June 1967(1967-06-17) (aged 81–82)
Chile
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
AwardsAtenea Award (1933)

Ernesto Montenegro (1885 – 17 June 1967)[1] was a Chilean journalist and writer associated with the Generation of 1912.[2]

Career

Ernesto Montenegro spent much of his life in the United States, where he served as a journalist and founded a magazine named Chile.

In Chile he founded the first school of journalism (of the University of Chile) in 1952, which he also directed and worked for as a professor.[3]

In his country he worked for the newspaper El Mercurio, and was a chronicler for several international papers, such as El Universal (Venezuela), Excélsior (Mexico), and the New York Times, Herald Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor (United States). In addition, he translated stories by American authors.[3]

Works

  • 1933 Cuentos de mi tío Ventura
  • 1934 Puritania. Crónicas norteamericanas
  • 1935 La novela chilena en medio siglo
  • 1937 Algunos escritores modernos de Estados Unidos
  • 1951 De descubierta
  • 1956 Aspectos del criollismo en América (in conjunction with Ricardo A. Latcham [es] and Manuel Vega)
  • 1968 Mis contemporáneos (posthumous)
  • 1968 Viento norte, viento sur (posthumous)
  • El príncipe jugador
  • 1970 Memorias de un desmemoriado (posthumous)[3]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Castillo, Homero (May–August 1969). "Reseñas" [Reviews]. Revista Iberoamericana (in Spanish). Vol. XXXV, no. 68. pp. 410–411. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Generación 1912 (Nacidos de 1875 a 1889)" [Generation 1912 (Born from 1875 to 1889)]. Cámara Chilena del libro (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-06-05. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Ernesto Montenegro". Biblioredes (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 March 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ^ Sepúlveda, Fidel, ed. (1999). "Ernesto Montenegro (1885–1967)". Cuentos campesinos [Peasant Tales] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. p. 15. ISBN 9789561315716. Retrieved 5 October 2017 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Premio Atenea" (in Spanish). University of Concepción. Retrieved 5 October 2017.