Braulio Arenas

Braulio Arenas (La Serena, April 4, 1913 – †Santiago May 12, 1988) was a Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group.

Braulio Arenas lived most of his youth in the north of Chile, moving in his teens to Talca to study.

Influenced by these European currents, Arenas founded with some friends, in 1938, the Surrealist group Mandrágora.

The same year, one of his short story, Gehenna,[1] was published in Miguel Serrano's Antología del verdadero cuento en Chile.

Arenas received in 1984 the Chilean National Prize for Literature, winning some recognition albeit confidential editions of his works (often less than 800 exemplaries).