Roberto Appratto

Roberto Appratto (born August 28, 1950 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan writer and literary critic .

Appratto, who successfully completed his literary studies at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA) in 1974 , has also worked there since 1991 as a lecturer in literary theory and as a teacher for the secondary level. From 1975 to 1979 Appratto was a literary critic for the magazine Maldoror , after which he took over the same area in La Plaza until 1981 and also worked in this area for the weekly newspaper Jaque . From 1983 to 1987 he was a film critic for the Aquí newspaper . Until 1998 he also worked for El País Cultural . In 1998 he was honored in the competition for unpublished short stories of the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo . Four years later he won first prize in this competition with his work En el momento mismo . In 2007 he received the Premio Nacional. In 1974, 1975, 1979 and 1995 he published critical works on Chekhov , Edgar Allan Poe , Jorge Luis Borges and EE Cummings . He has also published five novels and eight volumes of poetry.

Publications (excerpt)

• 1978: Bienmirada
• 1983: Cambio de palabras
• 1986: Velocidad controlada
• 1991: Mirada circunstancial a un cielo sin nubes
• 1993: Intima (novel)
• 1994: Cuerpos en pose
• 1995 Arenas movedizas
• 1996: Bárbara (novel)
• 2004: Después
• 2004: La brisa (novel)
• 2005: Levemente ondulado
• 2007: Se hizo de noche (novel)
• 2008: 18 y Yaguarón (novel)

Awards

• 1998: Prize in the competition for unpublished short stories of the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo
• 2002: First prize in the Unpublished Stories Competition of the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo
• 2007: Premio Nacional

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 27

Web links

• Textos de Roberto Appratto with biography (Spanish), accessed April 27, 2012