Omar Prego Gadea

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Omar Prego Gadea (born June 17, 1927 in Cerro Colorado , † January 28, 2014 ) was a Uruguayan writer , journalist and essayist .

Omar Prego Gadea was a literary critic of Marcha , for which he wrote from 1952 to 1956, and of El Diario , where he worked from 1962 to 1972 and was deputy editor-in-chief (Secretario de Redacción). He also worked in this role for Tercera época , at the Parisian Amérique Latine (CETRAL) and the Mexican Cuadernos de Marcha Segunda época . After the civil-military dictatorship took place in Uruguay in 1973, he moved to France in 1974. He lived there until 1987 and worked for Agence France Presse , where he held a management position in the Latin America sector. After Prego Gadea returned to his native country, he was a member of the executive committee (Consejo Editorial) of the Cuadernos de Marcha Tercera Epoca from 1986 until its closure in 2001 , and from 1991 to 1996 he was the director of literature at the publishing house Trilce and was the director of the weekly newspaper Zeta . Prego Gadea also worked as a literary critic for Tres magazine , where he was also "Consejero Editorial". Prego Gadea was also active as a writer. His works include, for example, the novels "Último domicilio conocido", "Para sentencia", "Nunca segundas muertes" and "Igual que una sombra". He also contributed to the novella "La muerte hace buena letra", jointly written by eleven Uruguayan authors. He also co-authored various works. These co-authors included María Angélica Petit , E. Nepomuceno, A. Roa Bastos, and A. Maciel. He received a total of nine prizes (as of 2003) from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) and the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (IMM). He was also honored in 1995 by the Colombian daily El Espectador for his story "El día que me quieras".

Works (selection)

  • "Los serves del viento" (1969)
  • "Juan Carlos Onetti o la salvación por la escritura" (1982) with María Angélica Petit
  • "Sólo para exilados" (1987)
  • "Último domicilio conocido" (1990)
  • "Para sentencia" (1994)
  • "Nunca segundas muertes" (1995)
  • "Delmira" (1996 or Madrid 1998)
  • "Igual que una sombra" (1998)
  • "El sueño del justo" (1998)
  • "Cuentos completos" (2000)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayer falleció Omar Prego Gadea, con 86 años de edad (Spanish) in El País on January 29, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Prego Gadea, Omar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer, journalist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cerro Colorado , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2014