Uruguayan literature
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Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history.
Beginnings[]
Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of the Romantic period are and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.ll
Modernistas[]
Julio Herrera y Reissig was one of the great fin-de-siècle modernistas, indeed one of the very greatest and subtlest of Latin American poets. Two leading women are Juana de Ibarbourou and Delmira Agustini; indeed, Ibarbourou defined a whole period of Spanish-American sentiment towards the poetic and was immensely popular. Emilio Frugoni and Emilio Oribe were distinguished lyricists.
Other important figures[]
Outstanding among the prose and fiction figures are Juan Carlos Onetti, , Eduardo Galeano, Felisberto Hernández, Mario Benedetti, Tomás de Mattos, Mauricio Rosencof and Jorge Majfud.
Horacio Quiroga was an immensely popular as well as highly individual and flavourful short-story writer who has had vast influence. Constancio C. Vigil was once a beloved, if highly moralistic, children's writer.
Jorge Luis Borges, while Argentine, was an avid commentator on the Uruguayan historical and cultural scene; some of his characters are realistically Uruguayan. Florencio Sánchez remains Uruguay's most famous theater writer.
Writers from Northern Uruguay[]
While many of Uruguay's writers have been primarily connected with the capital Montevideo, a number have been identified with the north of the country.
See also[]
- , the magazine of the Uruguayan Association of Literature Teachers
- List of Uruguayan writers
- List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay
External links[]
- Uruguayan literature
- South American literature
- Latin American literature by country
- Spanish-language literature
- Literature by country stubs
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