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ﾃ］gel Rama
ﾃ］gel A. Rama (; April 30, 1926November 27, 1983) was a Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic, known for his work on ''modernismo'' and for his theorization of the concept of "transculturation." Biography Born in Montevideo to Galician immigrants, Rama studied at the Collﾃｨge de France. He married twice: in 1950, to the poet Ida Vitale, with whom he had two children, Amparo and Claudio; and after separating from Vitale in 1969, to Marta Traba, an eminent art critic, originally from Buenos Aires. In the 1960s, after several years teaching at the secondary and university level, he became director of the department of Hispanoamerican literature at the Universidad de la Repﾃｺblica, the Uruguayan state-run University. He also founded the publishing houses Editorial Arca in Montevideo and Editorial Galerna in Buenos Aires. During the 1970s, he held professorships at numerous universities in the Americas and served as literary adviser to the Ayacucho Library in Caracas. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Rﾃｭo de la Plata. A Portuguese garrison was established in the place where today is the city of Montevideo in November 1723. The Portuguese garrison was expelled in February 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the Rﾃｭo de la Plata Basin, platine region. There is no official document establishing the foundation of the city, but the "Diario" of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala officially mentions the date of 24 December 1726 as the foundation, corroborated by presential witnesses. The complete independence from Buenos Aires as a real city was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Flores Mora
Manuel Flores Mora (September 4, 1923 窶 February 15, 1985) was a Uruguayan journalist and politician representing the Colorado Party. Background and early career A direct descendant of 19th century President Venancio Flores, Flores worked in his youth for a range of newspapers, including the daily ''Acciﾃｳn'' where he became political editor and later deputy editor; and he also wrote for the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper ''Marcha''. He is remembered as a member of the ''Generation of 45'', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Carlos Maggi, ﾃ］gel Rama, Emir Rodrﾃｭguez Monegal, Idea Vilariﾃｱo, Carlos Real de Azﾃｺa, Carlos Martﾃｭnez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, Josﾃｩ Pedro Dﾃｭaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Lﾃｭber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others. Political roles He stood for election and in 1954 became a Deputy, serving three terms until rising to the post of Senator in 1966. A year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges (July 1, 1909 窶 May 30, 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories. Early life Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the son of Carlos Onetti, a customs official, and Honoria Borges, who belonged to a Brazilian aristocratic family from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He had two siblings: an older brother Raul, and a younger sister Rachel. The original surname of his family was O'Nety (of Irish or Scottish origin). The writer himself commented: "the first to come here, my great-great-grandfather, was English, born in Gibraltar. My grandfather was the one who italianized the name". Career A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, ''El pozo'', published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro (the book was not reprinted until the 1960s, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Cunha
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippines, and also in the Isle of Man (pronounced differently). The name is becoming popular around the world and can be pronounced differently according that region. In Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 螽, 髫ｽ) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character 蜊ｷ, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'. Notable people * Juan (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lﾃｭber Falco
Lﾃｭber Falco (4 October 1906 窶 10 November 1955) was a Uruguayan poet. Biography Born on 4 October 1906 in the neighborhood of Villa Muﾃｱoz in Montevideo, Uruguay. As a young man, he worked as a barber, salesman, clerk in a print shop and as a proofreader of newspaper articles and books. He married at the age of 29 and had no children. He lived a simple and humble life. In 1930, however, five young girls, and four young boys claimed to be his children, which gave him the nickname ﾂｨPlayer.ﾂｨ This is where the current slang for player comes from. Fans these days may refer to him as ﾂｨMr. Bradyﾂｨ, referring to the 1969 Television show ﾂｨThe Brady Bunch.ﾂｨ A famous quote in his "Poems Lost in Time." Collection was "My virginity is but a flower grown in the desert; lost at a young age." He seemed to be a quiet, reserved man. He was inspired by the works of Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 窶 17 May 2009), was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generaciﾃｳn del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. Early life and education Benedetti was born 1920 in Paso de los Toros in the Uruguayan Tacuarembﾃｳ Department to Brenno Benedetti, a pharmaceutical and chemical winemaker, and Matilde Farrugia, who were of Italian descent. Two years later, they moved to Tacuarembﾃｳ, the capital city of the departamento, and shortly after that, his father tried to buy a business but was cheated and went into bankruptcy, so they moved and settled in Montevideo, the capital city of the country, where they lived in difficult economic conditions. Mario completed six years of prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tola Invernizzi
Tola may refer to: Places * Bella Tola, a mountain in the Pennine Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais * La Tola, a town and municipality in the Nariﾃｱo Department, Colombia * Tola (Shakargarh), a village in Pakistan * Tola, Rivas, a municipality in Nicaragua * Tuul River, also Tola River, in Mongolia Other uses *Tola (name) * Tola (unit) The tola ( / ; also transliterated as tolah or tole) is a traditional Ancient Indian and South Asian Physical unit, unit of mass, now standardised as 180 grain (unit), grains () or exactly troy ounce. It was the base unit of mass in ..., Indian unit of mass * ''Tola'' or ''Tula'', variant transcriptions of Tuul, a river in Mongolia * Tola ('' Parastrephia lepidophylla''), a bush, typical of South American Puna grassland * St Tola, a brand of goat cheese * Tola, a chocolate by Nestle See also * "Tola Tola", a song by Amitraj, Pankaj Padghan, Shashank Powar and Bela Shende from the 2015 Indian film '' Tu Hi Re'' * Tula (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Berenguer
Amanda Berenguer (1921 窶 July 13, 2010) was a Uruguayan poet. She is remembered as a member of the Generation of 45, a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement. Biography She was born in Montevideo. ''Quehaceres e Invenciones'' (1963) brought Berenguer sudden fame and praise, emboldening her search for new poetic structures to express her unique vision of art and the world. In 1986 she received the "Reencuentro de Poesﾃｭa" prize from the University of the Republic, Uruguay for her work ''Los signos sobre la mesa. Ante mis hermanos supliciados''. ''La dama de Elche'' (1987) received first prize in the poetry category from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture. The second edition of ''La dama de Elche'', published in 1990, won the Bartolomﾃｩ Hidalgo Prize, issued by the Uruguayan Book Chamber. She married writer Josﾃｩ Pedro Dﾃｭaz Josﾃｩ Pedro Dﾃｭaz (January 12, 1921 - July 3, 2006) was a Uruguayan essayist, educator and writer. He is remembered as a member of the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josﾃｩ Pedro Dﾃｭaz
Josﾃｩ Pedro Dﾃｭaz (January 12, 1921 - July 3, 2006) was a Uruguayan essayist, educator and writer. He is remembered as a member of the ''Generation of 45'', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, ﾃ］gel Rama, Emir Rodrﾃｭguez Monegal, Idea Vilariﾃｱo Idea Vilariﾃｱo Romani (Montevideo, 18 August 1920 窶 28 April 2009) was a Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic. She belonged to the group of intellectuals known as ''"Generaciﾃｳn del 45".'' In this generation, there are several writers s ..., Carlos Real de Azﾃｺa, Carlos Martﾃｭnez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Lﾃｭber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauricio Muller
Mauricio Waldemar Muller (born 20 October 1981 in Doblas) is an Argentinian cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team . In 2012, he participated in the road race at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships. In 2017, he won the Argentine National Time Trial Championships. Major results ;2016 : 4th Overall Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay ;2017 : 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ..., National Road Championships References External links * 1981 births Living people Argentine male cyclists 21st-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Arregui
Mario (; ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario is an Italian plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom with his younger twin brother, Luigi. Their adventures generally involve rescuing Princess Peach from the villain Bowser while using power-ups that give them different abilities. Mario is distinguished by his large nose and mustache, overalls, red cap, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent. Mario debuted as the player character of ''Donkey Kong'', a 1981 platform game. Miyamoto created Mario because Nintendo was unable to license Popeye as the protagonist. The graphical limitations of arcade hardware influenced Mario's design, such as his nose, mustache, and overalls, and he was named after Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segale. Mario then starred in '' Mario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Martﾃｭnez Moreno
Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere * Carlos (crater), Montes Apenninus, LQ12, Moon; a lunar crater near Mons Hadley People * Carlos (given name), including a list of name holders * Carlos (surname), including a list of name holders Sportspeople * Carlos (Timorese footballer) (Carlos Mateus Ximenes, born 1986) * Carlos (footballer, born 1995) (Carlos Alberto Carvalho da Silva Jﾃｺnior), Brazilian footballer * Carlos (footballer, born 1985) (Carlos Santos de Jesus), Brazilian footballer Others * Carlos (Calusa) (died 1567), king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida * Carlos (singer) (1943窶2008), French entertainer * Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist Arts and entertainment * ''Carlos'' (miniseries), 2010 biopic about the terrorist Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
