Alvaro Barros-Lemez

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Alvaro Barros-Lemez (born December 6, 1945 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † September 24, 2004 ) was a Uruguayan journalist, essayist, lecturer and publisher.

From 1966 to 1994 Barros-Lemez was a lecturer at universities in Uruguay ( Universidad de la República ), Peru, the USA and Venezuela. During the civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay, he was in exile in various countries. In 1981 he obtained a degree in humanities ( Licenciado en Letras ) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela . This was followed in 1984 with a Master of Arts at the US University of Maryland .

For Barros-Lemez, who has been working intensively as a journalist on an international level since 1962 and wrote in this context for example for Época , El Popular , Marcha , Extra and Ya , there are numerous participations in international congresses - for example in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the USA and Venezuela - to book. He was also the founding director of the montevidean publishing house Monte Sexto and worked as such from 1985 to 1995.

In addition to numerous publications in national and international magazines and joint works, Barros-Lemez publications included 29 books by 2003.

Publications (excerpt)

  • 1973: Cuentos inéditos de Javier de Viana
  • 1978: La televisión en América Latina
  • 1983: Alzando el poncho. Relatos de Javier de Viana
  • 1984: Angel Rama: Bibliografía sumaria
  • 1985: Las voces distantes. Muestra de los creadores uruguayos de la diáspora 1973-1984
  • 1986: Angel Rama: Bibliografía General Anotada
  • 1986: Abraxas en el país de las pesadillas. La narrativa de Samuel Dashiell Hammett
  • 1996: Las joyas de la abuela. Crónica de una asignatura pendiente
  • 1997: 100 Años de la Estación Central
  • 1999: Crónica de la Víspera , Roman
  • 2000: Visión de Artigas
  • 2001: Cimbrando de lazo

literature

  • Miguel Ángel Campodónico : Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya. Sepa quién es quién en Artes Visual es, Música, Cine y Video, Teatro, Letras y Periodismo. Linardi y Risso, Montevideo 2003, ISBN 9974-559-31-6 , p. 40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El País, September 25, 2004, accessed May 4, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elpais.com.uy
personal data
SURNAME Barros-Lemez, Alvaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan journalist, essayist, lecturer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2004