Santiago, chile
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INDIGENEOUS HERITAGE: Mapuche and Inca
COLONIZED BY SPAIN: mid-1500s
INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN: February 12, 1818
LANGUAGE: Spanish
NOTABLE CHILEAN WRITERS and ARTISTS:
Pablo Neruda, poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
Roberto Bolaño, novelist
Gabriela Misral, poet, first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
Isabel Allende, novelist, Chilean-American
Víctor Jara, playwright, songwriter, political activist
COLONIZED BY SPAIN: mid-1500s
INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN: February 12, 1818
LANGUAGE: Spanish
NOTABLE CHILEAN WRITERS and ARTISTS:
Pablo Neruda, poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
Roberto Bolaño, novelist
Gabriela Misral, poet, first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
Isabel Allende, novelist, Chilean-American
Víctor Jara, playwright, songwriter, political activist