Gonzalo Baz (born 1985) is an
Uruguayan
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 ...
writer and publisher.
He was born 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 ...
. He runs the publishing house
Pez en el Hielo and is a member of the
Sancocho collective of independent artists and publishers. He has published two works of fiction till date:
* ''Animales que vuelven'' (Returning animals, Pez en el Hielo), winner of the 2018 Ópera Prima Award from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education
* ''Los pasajes comunes'' (The common passages, Criatura Editora, 2020), his debut novel
Baz is also a translator of
Brazilian literature into Spanish. In 2021, he was named by ''
Granta'' magazine as one of the best young writers in the Spanish language.
References
category:Uruguayan writers
Living people
1985 births
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