Horacio Quiroga

HORACIO QUIROGA

Horacio Quiroga was a poet and short story writer from Uruguay.Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was born in the city of Salto, Uruguay, on December 31, 1878. His father was called Prudencio Quiroga, and he worked for the Argentine Consulate. His mother was called Pastora Forteza. He was the sixth child in a middle-class family. His father accidentally killed himself with a shotgun when he was still a baby.

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He published a collection called The Crime of Another. It was inspired by the works of the famous American poet Edgar Allan Poe. In 1907, the magazine Faces and Masks published his horror story, “The Magnificent Pillow.” It became his first big success.Quiroga spent the next few years living in the jungle with his family. he published Jungle Tales, a book of children’s stories. Over the next few years, he released the collections The Wild, Anaconda, and The Desert.

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Personal Life

• Horacio Quiroga had a tumultuous personal life. His stepfather killed himself, and his brother and sister died from typhoid fever. He also accidentally shot his friend while cleaning a gun and the police cleared him of the crime.

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Personal Life

• Quiroga’s first wife was his teenage student Ana Maria. They had a daughter, Egle, and a son, Dario. Ana Maria became depressed and committed suicide a few years later. Years later, he married his second wife, Maria Elena.

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DEATH

n 1935, Horacio Quiroga found out he had prostate cancer. The symptoms became unbearable, and the doctors soon told him it was inoperable. On February 19, 1937, he drank a glass of cyanide to end his misery. He was buried in Argentina, but his remains were later transferred to Uruguay.