Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel ˈroxas]; January 8, 1896 – March 11, 1973) was a Chilean writer and journalist.

Rojas was born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Chilean parents.

He began to contribute to the anarchist journals The Buenos Aires Protest and The Battle of Santiago, where he wrote articles about politics, education, and society (for the 100-year anniversary of the return to Chile, in 2012, Jorge Guerra, the president of the Manuel Rojas Foundation, compiled the texts from the Chilean journals and signed them a few times with his name.

His first book of short stories, Hombres del sur (Men of the South), appeared in 1926.

In 1936, he published his second novel, La Ciudad de los Césares (The City of the Caesars), and, after the death of his wife, he took over as director of the University of Chile's printing press.

Years later, Rojas would declare in an interview his regret for writing this novel, criticizing it for not only being bad, but also extremely fictional.

Novels Short Stories Poems Essays In 2012, Chile's National Council of Culture and the Arts established the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award in his honor.