Hiber Conteris
Hiber Conteris (born September 23, 1933 in Paysandú , Uruguay ; † June 2, 2020 ) was a Uruguayan writer , playwright , essayist and lecturer.
education
Between 1953 and 1959 Conteris completed a philosophical and humanistic degree both in Montevideo at the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences of the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) and in neighboring Argentina at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Universidad de Buenos Aires . During this time, between 1958 and 1959, he was also enrolled at the Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramático (EMAD) for a year for theater studies . He also received his doctorate between 1966 and 1968 in the sociology of literature with Lucien Goldmann , in semiology with Roland Barthes and in political sociology with Maurice Duverger at the École Pratique des Hautes Études . In 1973 there was a postgraduate seminar at the Université catholique de Louvain on ideology and science.
Professional and artistic career
Conteris taught literature in secondary school ( Enseñanza Secundaria ) and worked as a lecturer in political science and the history of ideas at the law faculty of the UdelaR. From 1986 to 1990 he was a professor of Hispanic American literature at the University of Wisconsin . At least at the beginning of the 21st century, he was a Spanish lecturer and professor in the Division of Modern Languages at New York's Alfred University .
From 1959 to 1972 Conteris also worked as a journalist for the weekly Marcha , for which he also worked as a literary chronicler. He wrote numerous novels and plays. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his work. For example, he received the Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) and a special mention at the Casa de las Américas for the theater work El asesinato de Malcolm X, in addition to the Premio Florencio . This work will be translated into English, Polish and Czech. His novel El diez por ciento de tu vida , first published in Barcelona in 1986 and republished eight years later in Montevideo, has been translated into French, English, Italian, Japanese and German.
His plays were also implemented around the world and were shown in Chile , Cuba , Poland , Czechoslovakia and the USA , for example .
Publications (selection)
- 1959: Enterrar a los muertos
- 1960: Este otro lado del telón
- 1963: Cono Sur , Roman
- 1963: El socavón
- 1963: El desvío
- 1965: Villa Anastacio , play
- 1966: Virginia en Flashback , novel
- 1968: El nadador , novel
- 1969: El asesinato de Malcolm X , play
- 1986: El Intruso
- 1986: El diez por ciento de tu vida , Barcelona, Roman (published again in 1994 in Montevideo)
- 1987: Holiday Inn
- 1987: La Diana en el Crepúsculo , Roman
- 1987: Información sobre la Ruta 1 , Stories
- 1988: La cifra anónima , short stories
- 1996: ¿Qué desea cenar?
- 1996: El breve verano de Nefertiti , novel
- 1998: El cielo puede esperar
- 1998: Round Trip - Viaje regresivo , Roman
- 1999: Mi largo adiós a Raymond Chandler , essay
- 2001: Rastros de ceniza
- 2002: Oscura memoria del sur , Roman
- 2005: Onetti en el espejo
- 2008: El Intruso
Awards (selection)
- 1963: First prize in the Marcha competition with his novel Cono Sur
- 1968: Special mention at the Casa de las Américas for El asesinato de Malcolm X
- 1969: Premio Florencio for his work El asesinato de Malcolm X as best work by a domestic author
- 1969: Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) for El asesinato de Malcolm X
- 1988: Premio Casa de las Américas for La cifra anónima
- 1994: Premio Castillo-Puche in Murcia for El breve verano de Nefertiti
- 1998: Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture for Round Trip - Viaje regresivo
literature
- Miguel Ángel Campodónico : Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya . Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, ISBN 978-9974-675-00-1 , p. 87 .
Web links
- Profile on www.dramaturgiauruguaya.gub.uy (Spanish), accessed May 17, 2012
- Profile on www.findesiglo.com.uy (Spanish), accessed May 18, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ obituary hiber Conteris. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conteris, Hiber |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan writer, playwright, essayist and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paysandú , Uruguay |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 2020 |