Jorge Arbeleche
Jorge Arbeleche (born October 23, 1943 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan writer, essayist and lecturer.
Life
In 1969 Arbeleche successfully completed a literary education at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA). From 1985 he worked there as a lecturer in Spanish literature and since 1988 as a teaching inspector ( inspector docente ) for literature at secondary level. His debut work as a poet appeared in 1968 with the title Sangre a la luz . In the following years he published numerous books, some of which were translated into English, Portuguese, Russian, French and Italian. His essayistic work, which extends to Juana de Ibarbourou , Gabriel García Márquez and Sara de Ibáñez , for example , is extensive.
He has received various prizes and awards for his literary work. His works also helped him to make entries in various literary lexicons and anthologies such as the Diccionario de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana in 1993 , the Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya , in 1989 in the Antología de la Poesía Uruguaya published in Havana and in 1987 in the Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana .
Since 1996 he has been a member of the Academia Nacional de Letras del Uruguay. The Spanish Royal Academy He joined in 2001 as a corresponding member as to how well the Real Academia Galega .
Arbeleche, who is assigned to the “Generación del 60”, has participated in literary congresses, seminars and festivals in North and South America, Europe and India.
Arbeleche also acted as an advisor to the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture.
Awards
- 1970: Award for La novela hispanoamericana de hoy from the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Madrid
- 1987: Award for Federico García Lorca: una poesía hacia la livertad from the Spanish Embassy in Montevideo
- probably 1993: Second prize from the Mexican magazine Plural for Agape
- 1999: Second prize from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) for El hilo de la lumbre
- 2001: First prize from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) for Para hacer un pradera
Publications (excerpt)
- 1968: Sangre a la luz
- 1976: Los ángeles oscuros
- 1979: Alta noche
- 1983: La casa de la piedra negra (again in 1989)
- 1993: Agape
- 1996. Alfa y Omega
- 1997: Responsabilidad de la poesía
- 1998: El hilo de la lumbre
- 2000: Para hacer un pradera
- 2001: El velo de los dioses , anthology
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 28f
Web links
- Biography (Spanish) on www.caratula.net, accessed May 14, 2012
- Biography (Spanish) at www.mec.gub.uy, accessed on May 14, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arbeleche, Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan writer, essayist and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |