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Culture Minister Luciano Cruz Coke said the government declared two days of official mourning starting Tuesday, adding that Rojas would be buried Wednesday in Chillan, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the capital. President Sebastian Pinera was expected to attend the funeral.
The writer's son Gonzalo Rojas-May Ortiz told Radio Cooperativa the poet died "after suffering a stroke in February that kept him in serious condition for about two months."
Education Minister Joaquin Lavin called the poet's death "a great loss to Chilean literature." Rojas had been considered Chile's most important living poet.
Rojas's body of work is vast, including his first poetry anthology "The Misery of Man" in 1948, "Against Death" (1964), "Dark" (1977), "Transtierro" (1979), "On Lightning" (1981) and "From the Water" (2007).
The son of a coal miner, he was born in 1917 in the port of Lebu, 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Santiago.
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The writer's son Gonzalo Rojas-May Ortiz told Radio Cooperativa the poet died "after suffering a stroke in February that kept him in serious condition for about two months."
Education Minister Joaquin Lavin called the poet's death "a great loss to Chilean literature." Rojas had been considered Chile's most important living poet.
Rojas's body of work is vast, including his first poetry anthology "The Misery of Man" in 1948, "Against Death" (1964), "Dark" (1977), "Transtierro" (1979), "On Lightning" (1981) and "From the Water" (2007).
The son of a coal miner, he was born in 1917 in the port of Lebu, 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Santiago.
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