Sylvia Lago
Sylvia Lago (born November 20, 1932 in Montevideo , Uruguay) is a Uruguayan writer , literary critic and lecturer.
Life
Lago studied literature at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA).
She is the director of the Department of Uruguayan and Latin American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Education ( FHCE ) of the Universidad de la República .
In 1962 she published her first work, Trajano , a multi-award-winning youth novel. Three years later she published another novel with Tan solos en el verano . For this she was awarded the Premio Feria del Libro y del Grabado . In 1968 her novella La última razón followed . In 1969, 1972 and 1987 she published the story-containing books Detrás del rojo , Las flores conjuradas and El corazón de la noche .
Her anthology Quince cuentos para una antología dates from 1988 . The work of Lagos also includes the two anthologies Cuentos de nunca acabar (1992) and Cuentos de atar (1993). Días dorados, días en sombra , placed on the book market in 1995, contained stories written between 1965 and 1995. Her novel Saltos mortales was awarded the Second Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) in 2002. In the same year the anthology El cuento uruguayo was published . Further anthologies, including the book Explorations , Anthologies published in Berlin in 1993 , partly in co-authorship with Rafael Courtoisie and Washington Benavidez, and other works round off her work. Lago also acted as a member of the jury at numerous literary competitions.
Publications (selection)
- 1962: Trajano , youth novel
- 1965: Tan solos en el verano , novel
- 1968: La última razón , novel
- 1969: Detrás del rojo
- 1972: Las flores conjuradas
- 1987: El corazón de la noche
- 1988: Quince cuentos para una antología
- 1995: Días dorados, días en sombra
- 2002: Saltos mortales , novel
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, pp. 177f
Web links
- Literature by and about Sylvia Lago in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Sylvia Lago: "la literatura no tiene sexo, pero quienes la escriben sí" (Spanish) at www.ucm.es, accessed on March 5, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lago, Sylvia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan writer, literary critic and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |