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 languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, gl ...
in
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of 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 the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
.
It was founded in
Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
on February 10, 1943.
Among the first members were Cardinal
Antonio María Barbieri,
Víctor Pérez Petit,
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 it ...
,
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 writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is ...
,
Emilio Oribe,
Alberto Zum Felde
Alberto Zum Felde (Bahía Blanca, 30 May 1887, 1888 or 1889Red Académica UruguayaAlberto Zum Felde – Montevideo, 6 May 1976) was a Uruguayans, Uruguayan historian, critic and essayist.
As shown by Arturo Ardao, Zum Felde is very relevant amo ...
, and
Carlos Martínez Vigil.
Since 1960, it is a member of the
Association of Spanish Language Academies
The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (; 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 and represents the union of all the separate academies ...
.
References
See also
* ''
Diccionario del español del Uruguay
The Dictionary of Uruguayan Spanish (, 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 the celebrations of the Bicentennial ...
''
*
:Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language
External links
Academia Nacional de Letras del Uruguay (Spanish)
Spanish language academies
Culture of Uruguay
Organizations established in 1943
1943 establishments in Uruguay
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