Avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro was born into an aristocratic family in Santiago, Chile. He is known as the creator and exponent of the literary movement called Creationism ( Creacionismo ), a kind of literary cubism. After studying literature at the University of Chile, he lived in Paris for about ten years, where he associated with poets and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Pierre Reverdy. Huidobro returned to Chile in the mid-1920s, founded a number of magazines, and ran for the presidency of Chile, ultimately losing the campaign. His most definitive works are Altazor and Temblor de cielo (both 1931), although readers should also pay attention to Poemas árticos (Arctic Poems, 1918), Ecuatorial (Equatorial, 1918), El ciudadano del olvido (Citizen of Oblivion, 1941), Ver y palpar (Seeing and touching, 1941) and Últimos poemas (1948). He died in Cartagena, Chile in 1948, shortly before his 56th birthday.