Background
Fidel Sepúlveda Llanos was born near to Cobquecura, in the south of Chile, the November 20 of 1936. His father died when he was one year and he lived his first years with his mother, two aunts and one uncle in the countryside.
Fidel Sepúlveda Llanos was born near to Cobquecura, in the south of Chile, the November 20 of 1936. His father died when he was one year and he lived his first years with his mother, two aunts and one uncle in the countryside.
At eleven years entered as a seminarian in the Franciscan fathers, first in Chillán then in Santiago, where studied Latin, classical philosophy and theology where he stayed until twenty-one. Later he studied law at the University of Chile (where he graduated) and, in parallel, Pedagogy in Castilian on the Catholic University of Chile where he graduated in 1965.
Degree in Hispanic philology (1978) and Philosophy Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy) in Hispanic Philology(1980) with outstanding qualification in Complutense University of Madrid. He was professor of the Metropolitan Educational Sciences University and the Catholic University of Chile, Director of the Institute of Aesthetics Catholic University of Chile for seventeen years into two periods (1971 - 1977 and 1993 - 2002) and of the journal Aisthesis of this mentioned research institute for 21 years (1982-2003). Foreign twenty years he organized and directed the Program Traditional Arts and Culture, first in 1982 in the city of Concepción and later at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago (1987-2003).
Poet and essayist.
His research and creation was expressing in more than 20 books, 70 essays and papers, and many conferences, awards and distinctions. Makes numerous trips to foreign universities in their task of teaching and dissemination of Chilean culture and identity (Spain, Germany, France, Mexico, Bulgaria, etc). He died in Santiago on September 27, 2006.
His body rests in the land of their ancestors Cobquecura.