Horacio Xaubet

Horacio Xaubet (born January 24, 1948 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan literary essayist and lecturer.

Xaubet, who has lived in the United States since 1967 when he emigrated to San Francisco with his parents, is an Associate Professor of Spanish at North Carolina Central University .

He completed a music, literature and Spanish degree at San Francisco State University , which he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1976. In 1992 he received his PhD in Romance Languages ​​and Literature from the University of California , Berkeley. Later he was a lecturer at several North American universities. These included, for example, Washington University , the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Binghamton University in New York. As an essayist, Xaubet has published in particular in the Encyclopedia of World Literature - Vol.5 , but also in other literary journals. In 1995 his book Desde el fondo de un espejo: autobiografía y metaficción en tres relatos de Felisberto Hernández was published by Linardi y Risso . For the year 2002 the collaboration with the Uruguayan magazine Hermes Criollo is recorded. In 2005 he published his collection of poems Hacia la noche va avanzando tristemente el día with Artefato .

Publications (excerpt)

• 1992: Desde el fondo de un espejo: autobiografía y metaficción en tres relatos de Felisberto Hernández
• 2005: Hacia la noche va avanzando tristemente el día (collection of poems)

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 358

Web links

• Biography , accessed April 22, 2012