Marta Brunet

Vocation

Notable

Family

Chilean writer who was the recipient of various awards including the National Literary Prize in 1961. She was the only child of Ambrosio Brunet Molina and his Spanish wife María Presentación Cáraves de Colosia. Her mother was disabled which led to Marta being largely taught at home by tutors. In her teen years she travelled to Europe with her parents and became influenced by the authors there. In 1923 her first novel appeared and was noted for its realistic portrayal of country life. By 1929 she lived in Santiago and had won a literary prize for a short story. Her writings began to involve urban life more after this and her 1946 work Humo hacia el sur (Smoke on the Southern shore), involving urban society, would be one of her most noted. Later she became second secretary to the Chilean embassy, but was asked to resign by the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. She died on 27 October 1967 in Montevideo, aged 70. Link to Wikipedia biography