Roque Esteban Scarpa

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Roque Esteban Scarpa Straboni
Chilean National Prize for Literature
(1980)

Roque Esteban Scarpa Straboni (26 March 1914 in

Italian
descent.

Scarpa served as professor of literature at the University of Chile and was a prominent member of the Chilean Academy of Language. In 1943 he founded the Teatro de Ensayo of the Catholic University of Chile. He was director of the National Library of Chile (1967–1971 and 1973–1977).

He also served as a literary critic in the newspapers

La Aurora
.

Works

  • Dos poetas españoles: Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti (1935)
  • Mortal mantenimiento (1942)
  • Cancionero de Hammud (1942)
  • Luz de ayer (poesía 1940-45) (1951)
  • Thomas Mann. Una personalidad en una obra (1961)
  • Una mujer nada de tonta (1976)
  • El árbol deshojado de sonrisas (1977)
  • No tengo tiempo: (poesía 1976) (1977)
  • La desterrada en su patria: Gabriela Mistral en Magallanes: 1918-1920 (1977)
  • El laberinto sin muros (1981)

References

  1. ^ "En las vísperas de la llegada de Juan Mihovilovich a Croacia". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2010.