Author. He was recognized as an important 20th-century poet of the Spanish language as well as a novelist and journalist. Continuously, he brought European literature to Chile. He was the founder of the short-lived Creationism Movement in 1918 in Spain. Born Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández into a political, aristocratic, and wealthy family, he began in 1907 his formal education at Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago and studied literature at the Pedagogical Institute at the University of Chile, but did not graduate. During the post World War I Parisian avant-garde era, he was part of the art and literature community, knowing poet Guillaume Apollinaire, authors Jean Cocteau and Andre Bretón, and painters Picasso and Juan Gris. As the editor of several magazines, he initially started in Madrid in 1921 "The first number of Creación", before moving the magazine to Paris. Returning to Chile in 1925, he became an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of Chile while publishing political essays. He traveled to New York City before going to Italy and beginning his novel "La próxima." By 1931 he had returned to Madrid to manage a publication. Among his prolific works are "Sátiro o el Poder de las Palabras" in 1939, "Vientos Contrarios" in 1926, "Gilles de Rais" in 1932 and "Altazor" in 1931, which is considered his masterpiece by critics and had been translated with a few other pieces into English. During World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, he was a war correspondent. He died from a stroke that may have been related to shrapnel wounds suffered in the Liberation of France of Nazism in 1945. He married three times. Although his work faded for a time, the Vicente Huidobro Foundation was created in Santiago in 1990 with the aim of preserving the poet's legacy.