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[]

• Centro Cervantes

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