Constancio Carlos Vigil (September 4, 1876 – September 24, 1954) was a Uruguayan-Argentine writer and prominent publisher.
Life and times
Constancio Vigil was born in
Rocha, Uruguay
Rocha () is the capital city of the Rocha Department in Uruguay.
Location and geography
The city is located on the intersection of Route 9 (Uruguay), Route 9 with Route 15, about northeast of San Carlos, Uruguay, San Carlos of Maldonado Departme ...
, in 1876. His father, a local politician, was forced to relocate to the nation's capital,
Montevideo
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, following a political dispute. The young man graduated from the
Universidad de la República
The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...
, started as a poetry contributor to writer
José Enrique Rodó
José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro (15 July 1871 – 1 May 1917) was a Uruguayan essayist.
He cultivated an epistolary relationship with important Hispanic thinkers of that time, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) in Spain, José de la Riva-Agüero in ...
, and became a journalist for ''El Nacional'' and, in 1901, founded his first periodical, ''Alborada'' ("Dawn"). He was named Editor-in-chief of ''La Prensa'', a newspaper aligned with the ''
Partido Blanco'' ("White Party"). Political intrigue once again intruded in the young man's life, however, when the newspaper was forcibly shuttered in 1903, leading Vigil to relocate to neighboring
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
,
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
[Bontempo, María Paula. ''La trayectoria de Constancio Cecilio Vigil antes de la fundación de Editorial Atlántida (1904-18)'']
The ambitious journalist created three magazines b