Books By Horacio Quiroga - Author

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (1878-1937) was a Uruguayan writer and poet who gained notoriety through short stories depicting the tragedy of survival, mental illness and the destruction of wild, untamed nature. As a short-story writer, his tales are considered wildly avant-garde, and his work is thought to have been influential in inspiring such celebrated writers as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez.