page_title: Sady Zañartu
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Sady Zañartu / Life
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sady Zañartu (Taltal, 6 de mayo de 1893 - 5 de marzo de 1983), fue un escritor chileno, que creó obras enmarcadas dentro de criollismo, el anecdotario histórico y la valoración nacionalista de lo patrio. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de su país el año 1974.
context_page_description: Sady Zañartu was a Chilean writer who created foundational works in the genres of Criollismo, historical anecdote, and patriotic valorization of the nation. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1974.
context_section_description: Sady Zañartu was born in the town of Taltal, Chile, the younger of two sons. His parents, Víctor Zañartu de la Cruz and Edelmira Bustos Frías, were farmers in the Copiapó Valley who also worked for a good part of their lives as miners. When he was very young, he moved to Santiago to study at the Internado Nacional Barros Arana, the Instituto de Aplicación, and the Instituto Nacional.
  Although he did not go on to a college career, Zañartu dedicated himself to research, and he always remained close to the intellectual circles of the era, such as the salons held by Delia Matte. He was also the founder of the Sociedad de Escritores de Chile, the Pen Club de Chile, and the Instituto de Conmemoración Histórica.
  
  Zañartu was motivated by a passion to search for ever greater knowledge, and he had a sharp understanding of literary currents. He said of his own life:
  I began to write when I was completing my military service, at 20 years old. When I left for the military camp, I sent stories to the newspaper La Mañana. I gathered up these chronicles in 1915, and put together the book Desde el Vivac.
  By that point he had also written the official song of the Buin Regiment, which would make it famous. This may be where his affinity for patriotic themes, historical stories, and nationalistic motifs originated. In his work, Zañartu would search through archives, consult documents, read everything there was to read on a subject that interested him, speak with the people involved, and travel to the locations where the action had happened. His literary work was precise and faithful.
  Zañartu was the director of the magazine Zig-Zag from 1925-1929. He also contributed to the newspapers La Nación and Los Tiempos. He was actively involved in the publications of the Gaceta Literaria in 1944. For his distinguished work as a writer and journalist, he received the Athena Award of the University of Concepción.
  
  The famous Chilean critic Omer Emeth said in 1927 of Zañartu's novel La sombra del corregidor:
  With four or five novels like that of Sady Zañartu, we could make an excellent study of the history of Chile.
  In 1940, he took up the post of cultural attaché in Lima during the administration of Pedro Aguirre Cerda. He died in 1983, in Valparaíso, and was buried in Santiago.
caption: Sady Zañartu
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