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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 224. Not illustrated. Chapters: Don Francisco, Patricio Manns, Miguel Enriquez, Mark Gonzalez, German Chilean, Edgardo Enriquez, Rene Schneider, Hans Gildemeister, Denise Rosenthal, Marco Enriquez-Ominami, Oscar Hahn, Evelyn Matthei, Egon Wolff, Cecilia Bolocco, Rene Letelier, Ingrid Antonijevic, Klaus Junge, Ena Von Baer, Cristian Huneeus, Carlos Keller, Tomas Hirsch, Sigrid Alegria, Pablo Huneeus, Manfred Max-Neef, Alex Von Schwedler, Felipe Aguilar, Maria Eugenia Larrain, Oscar Wirth, Diana Bolocco, Felipe Camiroaga, Jorge Gonzalez Von Marees, Carlos Frodden, Alejandro Sieveking, Rainer Wirth, List of Chileans of German Descent, Rodolfo Stange, Gloria Munchmeyer, Miguel Kast, Enrique Lihn, Alexander Witt, Sebastian Keitel, Fernando Matthei, Bartolome Blumenthal, Gert Weil, Carlos Kaiser, Claudio Bunster, Karen Doggenweiler, Maria Luisa Bombal, Hans Helfritz, Claudio Grossman, Rodolfo Armando Philippi, Alejandra Krauss, Hugo K. Sievers, Kristel Kobrich, Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Urania Haltenhoff, Federico Johow, Mathias Klotz, Raul Rettig, Marianne Berndt, Marlene Ahrens, Rosa Markmann, Marcela Paz, Klaus Von Storch, Jose Bohr, Max Schnettler, Carlos Anwandter, Otto Junge, Hans Braumuller, Juan Bruggen Messtorff. Excerpt: Patricio Manns (b. August 3, 1937) is a Chilean composer, author, writer, and journalist. Patricio Manns was born in the rural town of Nacimiento, in the south of Chile on 3 August 1937. He is the son of a primary school teacher and an agricultural engineer of German descent. Both of his parents were also involved in music: his father was a jazz aficionado and his mother studied classical piano. His mother was also central in cultivating his interest in literature. In his youth he took up a broad range of occupations: from coal miner in Lota to reporter for the daily newspaper La patria in Concepcion. At the b...