Chile is a land of poets. He won the Nobel prize in 1982. More than a novel, it can be considered a bold journalistic account of one of Colombia s foremost social problems. Julieta Pinto, is a contemporary Costa Rican writer. She is El Salvador s most important modernist poet.
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His works often ponder about Mexico and its relation to the rest of the world. This well travelled diplomat defined modernism. He was a very prolific writer both in prose and verse. Unusual among contemporary Latin American writers, he was a right-wing nationalist. His prose is characterized by complex techniques in which internal monologues, dialogues, action, and different time periods are all superimposed.