Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer and journalist.
Background
Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda was born on January 8, 1896 in Buenos Aires, in the family of Manuel Rojas and Dorotea Sepulveda. In 1899 his family returned to Santiago, but in 1903, after the father's death, the mother returned to Buenos Aires again.
Education
Manuel attended school in Buenos Aires until the age of eleven.
Career
In 1912 Manuel decided to return to Chile. Once he arrived to the country, he got involved with intellectuals and anarchist groups, while working in many different activities as an unskilled labourer: as a house painter, electrician, agricultural worker, railroad handyman, loading ships, tailor's apprentice, cobbler, ship guard, and actor in small-time itinerant groups.
Manuel returned to Argentina in 1921 publishing his first poems there. Back in Chile, he worked intensely in his narrative production and at the same time, he worked in the National Library and at the Universidad de Chile press.
Manuel joined the Los Tiempos and the Las Ultimas Noticias newspapers as a linotype operator first and ultimately worked on Santiago newspapers as a journalist. 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.
Manuel married María Baeza and had three children: Maria Eugenia, Patricio, and María Paz. After the death of his wife, he married again and started to travel.