![]() ![]() At the age of fifty-eight Horacio Quiroga was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer and committed suicide in the hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in February 1937. Along with several short story collections – most famous among them Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917 Stories of Love of Madness and of Death), Cuentos de la selva (1918 Jungle Tales) for children and Los desterrados (1926 Exiles) – he wrote two novels and a play which weren’t successful, though. With The Feather Pillow ( El almohadón de pluma) published in 1907 Horacio Quiroga achieved mastery and first fame as a short story writer. To earn his living he ran plantations in the jungle that he loved, worked as a Castillian teacher and later as an employee of the Uruguayan consulate in Buenos Aires, while he continued to write prolifically. His private life was shadowed by dramatic blows of fate and recurring financial problems. ![]() Towards the end of the nineteenth century he began writing for papers and literary journals and already in 1901 he compiled the best stories and poems in his first book, Los arrecifes de coral ( Coral Reefes). Horacio Quiroga, in full Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza, was born in Salto, Uruguay, in December 1878. ![]()
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