Ernesto Montenegro Explained

Ernesto Montenegro
Birth Date:	1885
Birth Place:	El Almendral, San Felipe, Chile
Death Place:	Chile
Occupation:	Journalist, writer
Awards:	Atenea Award (1933)

Ernesto Montenegro (1885 – 17 June 1967)^[1] was a Chilean journalist and writer associated with the Generation of 1912.^[2]

Career

Ernesto Montenegro spent much of his life in the United States, where he served as a journalist and founded a magazine named Chile.

In Chile he founded the first school of journalism (of the University of Chile) in 1952, which he also directed and worked for as a professor.^[3]

In his country he worked for the newspaper El Mercurio, and was a chronicler for several international papers, such as El Universal (Venezuela), Excélsior (Mexico), and the New York Times, Herald Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor (United States). In addition, he translated stories by American authors.^[3]

Works

• 1933 Cuentos de mi tío Ventura
• 1934 Puritania. Crónicas norteamericanas
• 1935 La novela chilena en medio siglo
• 1937 Algunos escritores modernos de Estados Unidos
• 1951 De descubierta
• 1956 Aspectos del criollismo en América (in conjunction with and Manuel Vega)
• 1968 Mis contemporáneos (posthumous)
• 1968 Viento norte, viento sur (posthumous)
• El príncipe jugador
• 1970 Memorias de un desmemoriado (posthumous)^[3]

Awards

• Alberdi-Sarmiento Award from the newspaper La Prensa (Argentina)^[4]
• Atenea Award (1933)^[5]

Notes and References

1. Reseñas . Reviews . Castillo . Homero . Revista Iberoamericana . XXXV . 68 . 410–411 . Spanish . May–August 1969 . 5 October 2017.
2. Web site: Generación 1912 (Nacidos de 1875 a 1889) . Generation 1912 (Born from 1875 to 1889) . Cámara Chilena del libro . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20070605024128/http://www.camaradellibro.cl/cienanos_3.htm . 2007-06-05 . dead . 5 October 2017 .
3. Web site: Ernesto Montenegro . Biblioredes . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20080318180545/http://www.biblioredes.cl/BiblioRed/Nosotros+en+Internet/escritores+de+san+felipe/ERNESTO+MONTENEGRO . 18 March 2008 . dead . 5 October 2017.
4. Book: Cuentos campesinos . Peasant Tales . Ernesto Montenegro (1885–1967) . Sepúlveda . Fidel . Andrés Bello . 9789561315716 . 15 . Spanish . 1999 . 5 October 2017 . Google Books.
5. Web site: Premio Atenea . . Spanish . 5 October 2017.