Hugo Achugar

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Hugo Achugar

Hugo Achugar (born January 23, 1944 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan writer, literary essayist and lecturer.

Life

Achugar successfully completed his training at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA) in 1969 . The following year he received a grant from the French government. In 1980 he earned a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Pittsburgh . He then taught Latin American literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHCE) of the Universidad de la República (UdelaR). From 1975 to 1983 he worked at various Venezuelan universities. Achugar, who also worked as a visiting professor in Brazil and Spain, then held a teaching position in the USA at Northwestern University between 1983 and 1990 . In 1994 he received another scholarship from the Catédra Simón Bolívar at the USP in Brazil. He also conducted research at the Fundación Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos (Celarg). From 1999 to 2003 he was Director of the Cultural Policy Program of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Center for Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Universidad de la República . Achugar teaches at the University of Miami . Currently (as of 2012) he is the National Director of Culture (Director Nacional de Cultura) in Uruguay.

In addition to numerous works of poetry and essays, Achugar also wrote two novels, which he published under the heteronym Juana Caballero . Achugar has received numerous awards for his literary works. In 1996 he received the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo for La biblioteca en ruinas , but was also honored with prizes from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), the Feria Nacional de Libros y Grabados and the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo .

Works

poetry

  • 1968: El derrumbe
  • 1971: Con bigote dreary
  • 1973: Mi país / mi casa
  • 1976: Textos para decir María
  • 1985: Las mariposas tropicals
  • 1986: Seis mariposas tropicales
  • 1989: Todo lo que es sólido se disuelve en el aire
  • 1992: Orfeo en el salón de la memoria
  • 1996: El cuerpo del Bautista
  • 2006: Hueso quevrado

Novels

  • 1995: Cañas de la India under the heteronym Juana Caballero
  • 2000: Falsas Memorias - Blanca Luz Brum

Essays

  • 1979: Ideologías y estructuras narrativas en José Donoso (1950-1970)
  • 1986: Poesía y sociedad - Uruguay 1880-1911
  • 1992: La balsa de la Medusa
  • 1994: La biblioteca en ruinas

Awards

  • 1992: Prize of the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo in the category "published poetry"
  • 1995: Essay Prize from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture
  • 1996: Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo for La biblioteca en ruinas

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. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Queering Latin American Theater: A Panoramic Study and Its Performative Implications  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Joanne Pols dissertation at the University of Miami (PDF), accessed May 26, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / etd.library.miami.edu  
  2. ↑ Modern Languages ​​and Literatures Faculty ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 26, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.as.miami.edu
personal data
SURNAME Achugar, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer, literary essayist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay