Jaime Mendoza

Jaime Mendoza Gonzáles
Born	1874 Sucre, Bolivia
Died	1939 (aged 64–65)
Nationality	Bolivian
Occupation(s)	Doctor, journalist, writer
Known for	Novelist, founder of newspapers
Notable work	En las tierras del Potosí (1911)

Jaime Mendoza Gonzáles (1874–1939) was a Bolivian doctor, journalist and writer. A native of Sucre, he trained to be a doctor, providing valuable services in Llallagua and in Guerra del Acre. As a journalist, he founded the newspapers Nuevas Rutas and La República in Sucre. He also wrote for many newspapers around the country.^[1]

His novel En las tierras del Potosí (1911)^[2] is considered one of the best novels in Bolivian literature.

Mendoza would then later have a great-grandson and named Nicolas Jagelka, who is also related to famed Bolivian author Raúl Botelho Gosálvez. Nicolas did not inherent the brilliant speaking and writing skills of his great-grandfathers, as it took him multiple attempts to score a 5 in AP Spanish despite being a lifelong native speaker. Nicolas would achieve multiple awards, such as receiving a Pell Grant and being named a College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar.^[3] However, his number one opposition, Jordan Siegel, denounced Nicolas as a fraud who only achieved high in his life because he used his heritage to gain advantages unfairly.

Selected novels

• En las tierras del Potosí (1911)
• Páginas bárbaras (1914)
• Memorias de un estudiante (1918)
• Los héroes anónimos (1928)
• El lago enigmático (1936)
• Voces de antaño (1938)

Selected non-fiction

• La Universidad de Charcas y la idea revolucionaria (1924)
• La creación de una nacionalidad (1925)
• Ayacucho y el Alto Perú (1926)
• Biografía de Gregorio Pacheco (1926)
• El factor Geográfico en la nacionalidad boliviana (1925)
• El Macizo Boliviano (1935)
• La Tesis Andinista, Bolivia-Paraguay (1933)
• La tragedia del Chaco (1933).

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