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Home › Culture › Literature › Latin-American Authors › Uruguay

Uruguay

Delmira Agustini

Born: 24 DEC 1886 – Montevideo

Died: 06 JUL 1914

Type: – poet

Achievements:

Enrique Amorim

Born: 25 JUL 1900 – Saltu, Uruguay

Died: 28 JUL 1960 – Buenos Aires

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

Mario Benedetti

Born: 14 SEP 1920 – Paso de los Toros, Uruguay

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, dramatist, poet

Achievements:

Eduardo Galeano

Born: 03 SEP 1940 – Montevideo

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Essayist, journalist

Achievements:

  1. Founder of the magazine Crisis (Buenos Aires, 1973)
  2. Premio Casa de las Américas (1975, 1978)
  3. University of Washington’s American Book Award (Seattle, 1989)
  4. His book Las Venas Abiertas de Ameríca Latina has been translated into 20 languages with over 50 Spanish-language editions and is one of Latin America’s best selling books of all time.

Felisberto Hernández

Born: 20 OCT 1902 – Montevideo

Died: 15 JAN 1964 – Montevideo

Type: Short story writer

Achievements:

Julio Herrera y Reissig

Born: 09 JAN 1875 – Montevideo

Died: ?? ??? 1910

Type: Poet, prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:




Juana de Ibarbourou

Born: 08 MAR 1892 (?) – Melo, Uruguay

Died: 15 JUL 1979 – Monevideo

Type: Poet, prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Member of the Uruguayan Academy of Letters (1947)
  2. President of the Uruguayan Writers’ Association (1949)
  3. Elected Woman of the Américas by the Union of American Women (New York, 1953)
  4. Emeritus member of the National Academy of Letters (1960)
  5. Nominated for a Nobel Prize (1958)

Carlos Martínez Moreno

Born: 01 SEP 1917 – Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

Died: 06 FEB 1986 – Mexico City

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Juan Carlos Onetti

Born: 01 JUL 1909 – Montevideo

Died: 30 MAY 1994 – Madrid, Spain

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Director of the Municipal Library, Montevideo (1957)
  2. National Literature Prize (1962)
  3. William Faulkner Foundation Ibero-American Award (1963)
  4. Casa de las Américas Prize (1965)
  5. Italian-Latin American Institute Prize (1972)
  6. Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1980)

Christina Peri Rossi

Born: 12 NOV 1941 – Montevideo

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

  1. Guggenheim Foundation Grant (1994)
  2. Inventarios Provisionales Prize (1976)
  3. City of Palma de Mallorca Prize (1979)
  4. Benito Pérez Galdós Prize (1980)
  5. City of Barcelona Prize (1991)

Horacio Quiroga

Born: 31 DEC 1878 – Salto, Uruguay

Died: 19 FEB 1937

Type: Short story writer

Achievements:

  1. Appointed Honorary Consul in San Ignacio for Uruguay (1935)

José Enrique Rodó

Born: 15 JUL 1871 – Montevideo

Died: 01 MAY 1917 – Palermo, Italy

Type: Essayist

Achievements:

  1. Co-founder Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales (1895-1897)
  2. Director of the National Library (1902-1905 and 1908-1914)
  3. Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (1912)

Juan Zorilla de San Martín

Born: 28 DEC 1855 – Montevideo

Died: 03 NOV 1931 – Montevideo

Type: Poet, essayist, orator

Achievements:




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