Washington Cucurto
Washington Cucurto (aka Santiago Vega, * 1973 in Quilmes ) is an Argentine writer and editor .
Career
Washington Cucurto comes from a poor background and grew up in a suburb of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . As a child, he accompanied his father, who made a living as an outpatient salesman in the greater Buenos Aires area. As a young adult, Cucurto worked as a packer and shelf filler. During a reading at his school, he met the Argentine writer Fabián Casas , who discovered his literary talent and encouraged him from an early age. In 1997 Cucurto finally won the “1st prize” for his poems from the “Zelarayan” cycle. Prize "of the" Diario de Poesía ". Since then he has published several volumes of poetry, as well as the novels 'Cosa de Negros' (2003), 'Las aventuras del Senor Maiz' (2005) and 'El curandero del amor' (2007).
The volume 'Die Machine, die kleine Paraguayerinnen macht' (Berlin, 2004) and 'Das Haus von Cacho' (Buenos Aires, 2008), as well as' Kein Messer ohne Rose. History of a Latin American publisher and anthology of young authors' (Stuttgart and Buenos Aires, 2007).
His poems are part of various Latin American anthologies; his texts have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, English and German.
He was a guest at numerous poetry festivals in Latin America, Chile , Peru , and in 2007 at the mobile Latin American poetry festival Latinale in Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg.
style
Washington Cucurto attracted attention early on with poems written in a very unique tone. He mixes high culture (reminiscences of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz ) with street language, melodramatic cumbia with action-packed cumic, baroque sensuality with lapidary everyday observations. He has also added the registers and nuances of the idiolects of Latin American immigrants in Buenos Aires and its suburbs to Argentine Spanish. He is considered one of the first pan-Latin American writers. In 2004, together with the writer Fabián Casas and the visual artists Javier Barilaro and Fernanda Laguna , he initiated the Eloísa Cartonera publishing house , an editorial that produces books from recycled cardboard and paper.
Honourings and prices
- 2005/2006: Scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
Work (excerpt)
- 1810. La Revolución vivida por los negros (Roman), Buenos Aires, 2008
- El curandero del amor (novel), Buenos Aires, 2007.
- Como un paraguayo ebrio y celoso de su hermana (poems), Bahía Blanca / Argentina, 2006
- Las aventuras del senior Maíz (novel), Buenos Aires 2005.
- Hatuchay (poems), Mexico City 2005.
- Cosa de Negros (novel), Buenos Aires 2003.
- Veinte pungas contra un pasajero (poems), Bahía Blanca / Argentina, 2002.
- La máquina de hacer paraguayitos . (Poems), Buenos Aires 1999. In German The machine that makes little Paraguayan women , Berlin, 2004 (series “ Beautiful Reading ”, No. 33).
- Zelarayan (poems), Buenos Aires 1998.
Web links
- Literature by and about Washington Cucurto in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Washington Cucurto in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cucurto, Washington |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vega, Santiago |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quilmes |