Yáñez, María Flora (1898–1982)
Yáñez, María Flora (1898–1982)
Chilean novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: Maria Flora Yanez; (pseudonym) Mari Yan. Born María Flora Yáñez de Echeverria, Sept 1898, in Santiago, Chile; died April 7, 1982, in Santiago; dau. of Eliodoro Yáñez, founder of La Nacíon; sister of writer Alvaro Yáñez Bianchi, also known as Juan Emar (who m. Inés Echeverria, feminist writer).
Studied at Sorbonne, Paris, and lectured in Spain, Uruguay, and Peru; founded the Pen club of Chile (1936); writings include El abrazo de la tierra (1933), Espejo sin imagen (1936), Las Cenizas (1942), (autobiography) Visiones de infancia (1947, Visions of Childhood), Juan Estrella (1954), El último faro (1968) and El Peldaño.
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