Efraín Barquero

Efraín Barquero (3 May 1931 – 29 June 2020) was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2008. He worked in Colombia during the government of Salvador Allende. In France he wrote A deshora  between 1979 and 1985, which was later published in Chile in 1992. During this time he also wrote Mujeres de oscuro and El viejo y el niño.

Barquero died in Santiago de Chile on 29 June 2020 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 89.Fallece el poeta Efraín Barquero a los 89 años 

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