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List Of Uruguayan Writers ...
The following is a list of notable Uruguayan writers: List of Uruguayan poets * Teresa Amy (1950–2017) * Washington Benavides * Mario Benedetti * Amanda Berenguer * Selva Casal * Roberto Echavarren * Amir Hamed * Circe Maia * Jorge Meretta * Eduardo Milan * Salvador Puig * María Herminia Sabbia y Oribe * María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira * Jorge Medina Vidal * Idea Vilariño * Ida Vitale See also * List of Uruguayan women writers * List of Latin American writers * List of Uruguayans * Uruguayan literature * List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay {{Lists of writers by nationality Uruguayan List Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delmira Agustini
Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914) was an Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century. Biography Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, she began writing when she was ten and had her first book of poems published when she was still a teenager. She wrote for the magazine ''La Alborada'' (The Dawn). She formed part of the Generation of 1900, along with Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Quiroga. Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet, was an important influence for her. She looked up to him as a teacher. Darío compared Agustini to Teresa of Ávila, stating that Agustini was the only woman writer since the saint to express herself as a woman. She specialized in the topic of female sexuality during a time when the literary world was dominated by men. Agustini's writing style is best classified in the first phase of modernism, with themes based on fantasy and exotic subjects. Eros, god of love, symbolizes eroticism and is the inspiration to Agustini's poems abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malí Guzmán
Amalia "Malí" Guzmán (born 27 June 1961) is a Uruguayan playwright, journalist, and writer of children's literature. Biography Malí Guzmán trained as an actress at the school and as a theatrical and television set designer at the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art (EMAD). She was a disciple of the plastic artist Enrique Badaró from 1990 to 1994. She is the author of several plays aimed at children. In 2001 her work ''Cuentos de brujas disparatadas'' was nominated for the in the best children's show category. This work adapts freely and integrates stories of Valerie Thomas (''La bruja Berta''), (''El mayor tesoro'') and Mercè Company (''Nana Bunilda come pesadillas''). She also adapted the novel ''Aventuras y desventuras de Casiperro del Hambre'' by Graciela Montes, with the title of ''Casiperro'', and is co-author of the theatrical work for adults ''Buenas noches, Afrodita'', together with Arturo Fleitas and Serrana Ibarra. As a journalist, she dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges (July 1, 1909 – May 30, 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories. Early life Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the son of Carlos Onetti, a customs official, and Honoria Borges, who belonged to a Brazilian aristocratic family from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He had two siblings: an older brother Raul, and a younger sister Rachel. The original surname of his family was O'Nety (of Irish or Scottish origin). The writer himself commented: "the first to come here, my great-great-grandfather, was English, born in Gibraltar. My grandfather was the one who italianized the name". Career A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, ''El pozo'', published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro (the book was not reprinted until the 1960s, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Moraes
Jesús Moraes, (born 1955 in Bella Unión, Artigas Department), is an Uruguayan writer, who specializes in short stories. Subject and nature of writings As a Spanish-language 'cuentista', Moraes's writings regularly feature fantasy, religion, and the geographical north of Uruguay, from where he hails. Some of the religious thematic element in Moraes's work relates to his seminary background, although his theological studies did not eventually lead to a clerical vocation. Works ''El descubrimiento'' (The Discovery) is one of his better-known compilations. His short story "Los demonios de Pilar Ramírez" (The demons of Pilar Ramírez) has been made into a film. Regional background While Uruguayan culture, especially its 20th- and 21st century literature, is substantially secular, and based in the capital, Montevideo, Moraes's work in contrast is centred upon the north of the country, and its religious overtones tend to be more overt than in the works of many other contemporary Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás De Mattos
Tomás de Mattos Hernández (October 14, 1947 – March 21, 2016) was a Uruguayan writer and librarian. Being from Tacuarembó, de Mattos was one of the relatively few contemporary Uruguayan writers from the north of the country. As a librarian, de Mattos also served as the director of the National Library of Uruguay. He won Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo and the Fraternity Award un 1990. Works Among some of the most known works of Hernandez are the following: * ''La puerta de la misericordia'' (2002) * ''Ni Dios permita ; Cielo de Bagdad'' (2001) * ''A la sombra del paraíso'' (1998) * ''A palabra limpia : premios y menciones, primer Concurso de Cuentos para Jovenes'' (1997) * ''Historia estampada'' (1997) * ''La fragata de las máscaras'' (1996) * ''Bernabé, Bernabé!'' (1988) * ''La gran sequía'' (1984) * ''Trampas de barro'' (1983) * ''Libros y perros'' (1975) See also * List of Uruguayan writers * List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay A ''list'' is any set of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Maslíah
Leo Maslíah (born 1954) is a Uruguayan musician, humorist and writer. Born in 1954 in Montevideo, he started writing and composing in 1978, usually with a touch of humour. After a considerable success in the Uruguayan ''underground'' movement, he successfully disembarked in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. He slowly gained popularity, had concerts in Chile, Peru, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Spain among others. His music resists classification. It results from an original mix of personal experiments, popular music, classical composition - including electroacoustic materials - and jazz. He often bases his pieces on the minimalistic repetition of short elements. His lyrics include frequent puns. Overall, his production adopts a tone both ironic and critical, always intelligent and witty, sometimes nihilistic. He recorded more than 40 albums, most of them released in Uruguay and Argentina. In 2003 his opera ''"Maldoror"'' was performed in the Teatro Colón. He also wrote over 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Majfud
Jorge Majfud (born September 10, 1969) is a Uruguayan American writer. Life He was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He received a professional degree in Architecture in 1996 from the University of the Republic in Montevideo and studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He traveled extensively to gather material that would later become part of his novels and essays and was a professor at the Universidad Hispanoamericana of Costa Rica and at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught art and mathematics. In 2003 he entered the University of Georgia, where he obtained a Masters and a Ph.D. in the Department of Romance Languages. He is a member of the scientific committee of the ''Araucaria'' review of Spain, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and a Professional Member of PEN American Center. He taught at the University of Georgia and was a professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Currently, he is a professor at Jacksonville University. Majfud has won many the Exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circe Maia
Circe Maia, (born June 29, 1932, in Montevideo), is a Uruguayan poet, essayist, translator, and teacher. Biography Circe Maia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1932. Her parents were María Magdalena Rodríguez and the notary Julio Maia, both originally from the north of Uruguay. Her father published her first book of poetry (''Plumitas'', 1944) when she was just 12 years old. The sudden death of her mother when she was 19 left a somber mark on Maia's first book of mature poetry which was published when she was 25 (''En el tiempo'', 1958). She married Ariel Ferreira, a medical doctor, in 1957. In 1962 they moved permanently to Tacuarembó in the north of Uruguay with their first two children. She studied philosophy in the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and also at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias of the Universidad de la República, both in Montevideo. She began teaching philosophy at a Tacuarembó high school and at the Instituto de Formación Docente de Tacuarembó, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Larrosa De Ansaldo
Lola Larrosa de Ansaldo (1859–1895) was a writer and editor born in Uruguay who lived most of her life in Argentina, where she died. Life She was born Lola Larrosa in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay into an old patrician family that became impoverished for political reasons. After the family emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, she began writing in earnest, a passion she had found at an early age. Larrosa wrote for several magazines including ''La ondina del Plata'' in 1876 and published her novels in Buenos Aires. Notably, she wrote for '' La alborada del Plata'', which was run by the feminist Juana Manuela Gorriti Juana Manuela Gorriti (July 15, 1818 – November 6, 1892) was an Argentine writer with extensive political and literary links to Bolivia and Peru. She held the position of First Lady of Bolivia from 1848 to 1855. With the publication of ''La .... When Gorriti was out of the country during an armed conflict and unable to return to publish the paper, she asked Larros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana De Ibarbourou
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, (March 8, 1892 – July 15, 1979) was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular poets of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Biography She was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892, in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. The date of Juana's birth is often given as March 8, 1895, but according to a local state civil registry signed by two witnesses, the year was actually 1892. Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a religious school the following year, and two public schools afterwards. In 1909, at 17 years old, she published a prose piece, "Derechos femeninos" (women's rights), beginning a lifelong career as a prominent feminist. She married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou Trillo (1879-1942) in a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Herrera Y Reissig
Julio Herrera y Reissig (January 9, 1875 – March 18, 1910) was a Uruguayan poet, playwright and essayist, who began his career during the late Romanticist period and later became an early proponent of Modernism. Background He was the son of Dr. Manuel Herrera y Obes and nephew of government minister Dr. Julio Herrera y Obes, who would go on to become president of Uruguay. Julio Herrera y Reissig was born in Montevideo into a wealthy patrician family with connections to the social and cultural scene. Health and travel His only material limitation was his precarious health. In 1892, at age seventeen, a congenital heart defect, aggravated by typhoid fever, forced him to abandon his studies. Nor was he able to travel any great distance, and apart from a visit to Buenos Aires, he remained confined to Montevideo and the Uruguayan interior, including Castillo Piriá, near Piriápolis, where a plaque was unveiled in 1957 commemorating his residence there. Writings He relieved his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
