Hebert Abimorad (born 1946 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan-born journalist, translator and poet.
Abimorad went into exile to Sweden due to the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay. He settled in Gothenburg and developed a journalist career, writing for Göteborgs-Posten and Arbetet . He also wrote poetry and translated Swedish works into Spanish.
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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
Nancy Morejón is a Cuban poet, critic, and essayist. She was a recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award. She has been called "the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba".
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Washington Benavides was a Uruguayan poet, professor and musician.
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Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.
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Idea Vilariño Romani was a Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic.
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