Born in Santiago de Chile in 1912, Carlos Droguett was a narrator and essayist. His extensive narrative work includes the novels 'Sixty Dead on the Staircase' (1953), 'Eloy' (1957), 'The Man Who Had Forgotten' (1968), 'All Deaths' (1971) and 'Matar a the old ones' (published posthumously, in 2001). National Prize for Literature in 1970, he was exiled from Chile after the establishment of the military dictatorship and died in Bern, Switzerland, in 1996.