The Academia Nacional de Letras (English: "National Academy of Letters") is an association of academics and experts on the use of the
Spanish language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 millio ...
in
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
.
It was founded in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
on February 10, 1943. Among the first members were Cardinal
Antonio María Barbieri
Antonio María Barbieri, O.F.M. Cap. (October 12, 1892 – July 6, 1979), born Alfredo Barbieri, was an Uruguayan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Montevideo from 1940 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate.
B ...
,
Emilio Frugoni
Emilio Frugoni Queirolo (March 30, 1880 – August 28, 1969) was a Uruguayan socialist politician, lawyer, poet, essayist, and journalist. He founded the Socialist Party of Uruguay (PS) in 1910 and was its first general secretary, as well as its f ...
,
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 no ...
,
Emilio Oribe
Emilio Nicolás Oribe (April 13, 1893 – May 24, 1975), was a Uruguayan poet, essayist, philosopher, and doctor.
A professor at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, Oribe was dean of the university's Faculty of Humanities and Sciences and a ...
,
Alberto Zum Felde
Alberto Zum Felde ( Bahía Blanca, 30 May 1887, 1888 or 1889Red Académica UruguayaAlberto Zum Felde – Montevideo, 6 May 1976) was a Uruguayan historian, critic and essayist.
As shown by Arturo Ardao, Zum Felde is very relevant among the c ...
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Since 1960, it is a member of the
Association of Spanish Language Academies
The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language ( es, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 an ...
.
See also
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Diccionario del español del Uruguay
The Dictionary of Uruguayan Spanish ( es, Diccionario del español del Uruguay, acronym DEU) is an authoritative reference work on the Rioplatense Spanish as spoken in Uruguay. It was published by the National Academy of Uruguay in 2011 as part of ...
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:Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language
External links
Academia Nacional de Letras del Uruguay (Spanish)
Spanish language academies
Uruguayan culture
Organizations established in 1943
1943 establishments in Uruguay
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