caption dead death_date children death_place birth_place nationality birth_date spouse image article_title
horacio quiroga dead 19 february 1937 eglé 1912 -rrb- , maría elena quiroga -lrb- 1928 -rrb- quiroga -lrb- 1911 -rrb- , darío quiroga -lrb- buenos aires , argentina salto , uruguay uruguayan 31 december 1878 ana bravo -lrb- 1927-1934 -rrb- maría cires -lrb- 1909-1915 -rrb- , maría elena quiroga1900a.jpg horacio quiroga

horacio quiroga

horacio silvestre quiroga forteza -lrb- 31 december 1878 -- 19 february 1937 -rrb- was an uruguayan playwright , poet , and 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 .
he also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states .
his influence can be seen in the latin american magic realism of gabriel garcía márquez and the postmodern surrealism of julio cortázar .
