Enrique Lessa
Enrique Lessa (* 1924 in Montevideo , Uruguay) is a Uruguayan writer and journalist .
Life
Lessa studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de la República . At that faculty he later belonged to the Consejo Directivo during two phases . Lessa, who temporarily lived in Melo , worked as an architect from 1985 to 1990 in a managerial role as part of the MEVIR housing program in the Consejo Directivo Central de la Educación . He also worked as a secondary school teacher and, after starting out as a journalist, wrote for the weekly Marcha from 1981 to 1989 for the weekly La Democracia . He was also President of the Comisión del Patrimonio Histórico, Artístico y Cultural de la Nación .
Lessa only began writing at an advanced age. In 1992 he presented his work Quiebrayugos . For this he was part of the bank Caja General de Ahorro de Canarias with the Roman Prize Benito Pérez Armas ( Premio Benito Pérez Armas excellent). In the same year he also published De reojo: artículos y cuentos . In 1994, La urdimbre was published , for which he received the Prize for Unpublished Stories from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture . With El largo viaje de Julián Recuero , he presented another literary work six years later.
Publications
- 1992: Quiebrayugos
- 1992: De reojo: artículos y cuentos , published by Ediciones de la Plaza
- 1994: La urdimbre , ISBN 9974490227
- 2000: El largo viaje de Julián Recuero
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 188
Web links
- Short biography (Spanish) at www.edicionesdelaplaza.com.uy, accessed on March 11, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ La urdimbre - por Enrique Lessa (Spanish), accessed March 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lessa, Enrique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |