Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas (30 March 1919 – 5 January 1975) was a Chilean novelist, biographer, journalist, and screenwriter for radio, theater, and television.

"[3] Upon his death, he had more than 30 titles under his belt, as well as lyrics, poems, and a significant number of scripts for film, radio, and television.

[1] Although he served as a university professor, for more than a quarter of a century Inostrosa Cuevas worked in radio, and his programs were broadcast by the BBC.

[5] On that station in 1948, he premiered his work Adiós al Séptimo de Línea, one of the most successful Chilean radio programs.

[4] As El Mercurio pointed out after his death, this novel sold "more than five million copies, [constituting] one of the greatest bestsellers of the country's literary history.