Tomás de Mattos Hernández (October 14, 1947 – March 21, 2016) was a Uruguayan writer and librarian. Being from
Tacuarembó
Tacuarembó ( Guarani: ''Takuarembo'', literally: "Bamboo shoot") is the capital city of the Tacuarembó Department in north-central Uruguay.
Location and geography
The city is located on Km. 390 of Route 5, south-southwest of Rivera, the c ...
, 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
The ' is the National Library of Uruguay, located in Montevideo. It was created in 1815 and is the legal deposit and copyright library for Uruguay. It has been located in its current building since 1955. In 2006, it had more than 900,000 books ...
.
He won
Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo
The Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo ( en, Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize) are the most important literary awards in Uruguay.
Established in 1988, they are named after Bartolomé Hidalgo, one of the founders of Gaucho literature.
Selected recipients
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and the
Fraternity Award
The Fraternity Award ( es, Premio Fraternidad) is an honor given annually by the Uruguayan branch of the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith.
History
The Uruguayan branch of B'nai B'rith created the Fraternity Award in 1982, to promote the arts and t ...
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
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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 ...
*
List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
1947 births
2016 deaths
Uruguayan male short story writers
Uruguayan short story writers
Uruguayan librarians
Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language
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