Roque Esteban Scarpa
Roque Esteban Scarpa Straboni was a Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar. He won the Chilean [National Prize for Literature] in 1980. He was of Croatian and Corsican 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.
He also served as a literary critic in the newspapers El Mercurio and La Aurora.
Works
- Dos poetas españoles: Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti
- Mortal mantenimiento
- Cancionero de Hammud
- Luz de ayer
- Thomas Mann. Una personalidad en una obra
- Una mujer nada de tonta
- El árbol deshojado de sonrisas
- No tengo tiempo:
- La desterrada en su patria: Gabriela Mistral en Magallanes: 1918-1920
- ''El laberinto sin muros''