Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)

Horacio Quiroga

Uruguayan writer (1878–1937)

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of mental illness and hallucinatory states were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. In…