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    Baldomero Lillo was a Chilean short story writer considered the master of social realism in his country. He was born in 1867 in Lota, a small mining town that provided the setting for many of his stories about peasant life and the coal mining industry. Some of his most notable works include the story collection Juan Fariña and Sub-sole, which depicted the hardships of working class people and captured the dramatic scenes of his childhood hometown. Lillo drew influence from European authors like Dostoevsky and Zola and is still considered an indispensable source on Chile's coal mining history over 100 years later.

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    Baldomero Lillo was a Chilean short story writer considered the master of social realism in his country. He was born in 1867 in Lota, a small mining town that provided the setting for many of his stories about peasant life and the coal mining industry. Some of his most notable works include the story collection Juan Fariña and Sub-sole, which depicted the hardships of working class people and captured the dramatic scenes of his childhood hometown. Lillo drew influence from European authors like Dostoevsky and Zola and is still considered an indispensable source on Chile's coal mining history over 100 years later.

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    Baldomero Lillo

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    Baldomero Lillo was a Chilean short story writer considered the master of social realism in his country. He was born in 1867 in Lota, a small mining town that provided the setting for many of his stories about peasant life and the coal mining industry. Some of his most notable works include the story collection Juan Fariña and Sub-sole, which depicted the hardships of working class people and captured the dramatic scenes of his childhood hometown. Lillo drew influence from European authors like Dostoevsky and Zola and is still considered an indispensable source on Chile's coal mining history over 100 years later.

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    Baldomero Lillo

    Was a Chilean short story


    writer, considered the
    master of the genre of social
    realism in his country.

    Born in Lota, Biobío Region on


    January 6, 1867 and died in San
    Bernardo, Santiago Metropolitan
    Region on September 10, 1923.

    Lota, the small mining town where


    Baldomero Lillo lived throughout his
    childhood, provided the dramatic scenes
    that the author brought to his stories.

    The readings that had the greatest


    influence on his narrative were
    Dostoevsky, Zola, Turgenev and
    later, Maupassant, Eça de Queiroz,
    Dickens and Balzac.

    In 1903 he achieved recognition by winning first


    place in a short story contest with "Juan Fariña", a
    collection of eight short stories, thus appearing in
    Sub-terra.

    In 1907, his second book


    Sub-sole appeared, with
    thirteen stories of peasant
    life and the sea.

    Baldomero Lillo has maintained his relevance throughout


    one hundred years and is an indispensable source when
    referring to coal mining in Chile.

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