Augusto Goemine Thomson (1882-1950), better known as Augusto D’Halmar, is one of the most important writers in Chilean literature of the first half of the 20th century. He had a brief diplomatic career as a consul and later as a war correspondent. In 1918, he moved from France to Spain, a country where he lived until 1934, the year in which he definitively returned to Chile. In 1942, he became the first writer to receive the National Prize for Literature. He was the author of various literary works: essays, novels, short stories, poems, and plays, among which the following stand out: Juana Lucero (1902), Vía crucis (1906), La lámpara en el molino (1914), Gatita (1917), La sombra del humo en el espejo (1924), Pasión y muerte del cura Deusto (1924), Curso de oratoria: en doce lecciones (1949). He died in 1950.