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Francisco Coloane

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born

July 19, 1910 in Chiloé (island), Chile

died

August 05, 2002

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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"The Jack London of South America"

He was born in the southern Chilean island of Chiloé. Among his most famous works (translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Polish and Dutch) are: "La Tierra del Fuego se Apagó" (Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out, 1945), "Golfo de Penas" (Gulf of Sorrow, 1957), "El Camino de la Ballena" (The Whale's Path, 1962), "El Guanaco Blanco" (The White Guanaco, 1980), and "El Corazón del Témpano" (The Heart of the Iceberg, 1991).

Coloane was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Chilean National Prize for Literature) in 1964. In 1997, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Republic, where he won considerable notoriety for his work in the 1990s.

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Books by Francisco Coloane

Average rating: 3.61 · 142 ratings · 20 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Tierra del Fuego by Francisco Coloane, Howard Curtis (Translator), David Petreman (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1956 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World by Francisco Coloane, David A. Petreman (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	L'ultimo mozzo della Baquedano by Francisco Coloane, Pino Cacucci 3.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Los Conquistadores de La Antártida 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Le sillage de la baleine 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Golfo de Penas 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1945	My rating:
	I Balenieri Di Quintay by Francisco Coloane, Pino Cacucci (Translator), Gloria Corica (Transaltor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Antartico 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cuentos completos 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Naufrages by Francisco Coloane, François Gaudry (Traduction) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating: