Jorge Majfud

Jorge Majfud (around 2013)

Jorge Majfud (born September 10, 1969 in Tacuarembó , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan writer living in the USA .

Life

Jorge Majfud studied architecture at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo . After completing his studies in 1996, he taught design. In 2003 he gave up this activity to devote himself entirely to literature. One of the themes of his work is the everyday life and attitude to life of Hispanics in the USA. In 2012 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the inclusion of pre-Columbian myths in Latin American literature of the 20th century. He is currently a lecturer in Spanish at Jacksonville University . 2014 International Latino Book Awards finalist In 2012, the American magazine [Foreign_Policy] (now EsGlobal in Spanish) recognized him as "the most influential Latin American intelectual

Works (selection)

• Memorias de un desaparecido (novel, 1996)
• Crítica de la pasión pura (Essays, 1998)
• La reina de America (novel, 2001)
• El Tiempo que me tocó vivir (Essays, 2004)
• Significados ideológicos de América Latina (Essays, 2006)
• Perdona nuestros pecados ( short stories, 2007)
• La ciudad de la Luna (novella, 2009)
• Crisis (novel, 2012)
• Cyborgs (essays, 2012)
• El eterno retorno de Quetzalcoátl , 2012.
• Cuentos , audiobook, 2014.
• Cine político latinoamericano , essays, 2014.
• Herrmenéutica , essays, 2014
• Algo salió mal , short stories, 2015
• El mar estaba sereno , Roman, 2017

None of his books have yet been translated into German.

Awards

• In 2001 Majfud reached the final round of the selection for the literature prize of the Casa de las Américas Institute in Havana .
• Excellence in Research Award, University of Georgia, 2006
• Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Professional Activities, Jacksonville University, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Jorge Majfud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of the full texts of Jorge Majfud's texts available online in the Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish).
• Jorge Majfud: La inmoralidad del arte, la maldad de los pobres . In: Iberoamerican Review of the Organization of Iberoamerican States. ISSN  1681-5653 . Issue 36/12 of November 10, 2005.
• Alexander Prieto Osorno: Nuevos escritores uruguayos en tiempos difíciles on the Centro Virtual Cervantes website .
• Interview with María José de Acuña (Spanish).
• Interview with María Luisa Pedrós (Spanish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rivista digital tacuarembo2030 ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 5, 2013. 
2. ^ Gustavo Esmoris: Narrativa uruguaya de principios de siglo. Jorge Majfud y el Uruguay que se mira a sí mismo on Literaturas.com ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 22, 2014. 
3. ↑ Susana Baumann: Jorge Majfud applies his fractal vision to Latino immigrants ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 22, 2014. 
4. ↑ Eugenia Flores Soria: Jorge Majfud recrea el drama de los inmigrantes , accessed on February 22, 2014.
5. ↑ El eterno retorno de Quetzalcóatl. Una teoría sobre los mitos prehispánicos en América Latina y sus trazas en la literatura del siglo XX . Editorial Académica Española, Saarbrücken 2012. ISBN 978-3-659-01614-1 .
6. ↑ Staff directory of Jacksonville University  ( 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. , accessed February 22, 2014.  
7. ↑ 2014 International Latino Book Awards Finalists . In: El Paso Times . March 23, 2014. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 25, 2014. 
8. ^ [1] Foreign Policy / Magazine.