Juan Grompone | |
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| Born | Juan Arturo Grompone Carbonell 26 August 1939 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Nationality |  Uruguay |
| Alma mater | Universidad de la República |
| Occupation(s) | engineer, writer |
| Children | Miguel, Rafael, Lucía |
| Parent(s) | María Carbonell Antonio Grompone |
Juan Arturo Grompone Carbonell [1] (Montevideo, 1939) is a Uruguayan engineer and writer. [2]
He is a member of the National Academy of Economics and also of the Academia Nacional de Letras (English: "National Academy of Letters"). [3]
Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 in an area of 201 square kilometers (78 sq mi). Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata.
Club Atlético Peñarol —also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros, and (familiarly) Manyas— is a Uruguayan sports club from Montevideo. The name "Peñarol" comes from the Peñarol neighbourhood on the outskirts of Montevideo. Throughout its history the club has also participated in other sports, such as basketball and cycling. Its focus has always been on football, a sport in which the club excels, having never been relegated from the top division. The club traditionally plays in yellow and black-striped shirts.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was an 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.
José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez, nicknamed Don Pepe, was a prominent Uruguayan politician, who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. He was the son of a former president and was widely praised for his introduction of his political system, Batllism, to South America and for his role in modernizing Uruguay through his creation of extensive welfare state reforms.
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Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer serving as President of Uruguay since 1 March 2020.
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María Noel Riccetto Barusso is an Uruguayan ballet dancer, television personality and arts administrator, who currently serves as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay. A former soloist with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), she was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2017.
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Gerardo Caetano Hargain is a Uruguayan historian, professor, political scientist, and former association football player.
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