Sylvia Lago

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Sylvia Lago
Born
Sylvia Lago Carzolio

(1932-11-20) 20 November 1932 (age 90)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Education Instituto de Profesores Artigas  [ es ]
Occupation(s)Writer, teacher, literary critic

Sylvia Lago Carzolio (born 20 November 1932) is a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and literary critic. She has made a particular focus of women's issues, addressing various conflicts that women encounter in her work. [1] [2]

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Biography

Sylvia Lago was born in Montevideo on 20 November 1932. [3] [4] Her great-aunt was professor Elda Lago, a member of the Generación del 45, who bequeathed her home to the University of the Republic (UdelaR). [5] Lago studied literature at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas  [ es ] (IPA). [3] She carried out academic and scientific activities at the Department of Uruguayan and American Literature at UdelaR's Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, eventually becoming its chair. [3] [6]

In 1962, she published her first work, the young adult novel Trajano, which won awards in contests organized by the magazine Número and the Departmental Council of Montevideo. [7] Three years later, she published another novel, Tan solos en el verano. It was followed by La última razón in 1968. Her output was limited in the years after the 1973 coup d'état; she mainly published short story collections, such as Detrás del rojo, Las flores conjuradas, and El corazón de la noche. [8]

In 1988, she published Quince cuentos para una antología. She also contributed to the anthologies Cuentos de nunca acabar (1992), Cuentos de atar (1993), and Erkundungen (1993), the latter in co-authorship with Rafael Courtoisie  [ es ] and Washington Benavides. Her 1995 book Días dorados, días en sombra contains works written between 1965 and 1995.

In 2002, her novel Saltos mortales won second prize at the Ministry of Education and Culture's annual literature contest. [9]

She has served as a juror for literary competitions such as the Colihue Young Adult Novel Contest and the Juan Carlos Onetti Literary Contest. [10] [11] [12]

Selected publications

Chapters of books

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References

  1. ↑ "Sylvia Lago: 'abracé la literatura con violencia y con pasión'" [Sylvia Lago: 'I Embraced Literature With Violence and Passion']. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 6 January 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Torres, Alicia (27 December 2019). "Se buscan narradoras, vivas y muertas" [Women Storytellers Wanted, Dead or Alive]. Brecha (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Letras" (in Spanish) (1). Academia Nacional de Letras. 1997: 71. Retrieved 14 July 2021– via Google Books.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ Flori, Mónica (2002). "Sylvia Lago: 'la literatura no tiene sexo, pero quienes la escriben sí'" [Sylvia Lago: 'Literature Does Not Have Sex, But Those Who Write it Do']. Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios (in Spanish). Complutense University of Madrid . Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Salbarrey, Gloria (1 February 2008). "La herencia intelectual" [The Intellectual Heritage]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "La revista cultural bilingüe que dirige un salteño en Holanda" [The Bilingual Cultural Magazine in the Netherlands Run by a Man From Salta]. Diario El Pueblo (in Spanish). 20 February 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  7. ↑ Visca, Arturo S. (1968). "Sylvia Lago (1932)". Antología del cuento uruguayo [Uruguayan Short Story Anthology] (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Banda Oriental. Retrieved 14 July 2021– via Letras Uruguay.
  8. ↑ Lago, Sylvia (1987). El corazón de la noche [The Heart of the Night] (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Banda Oriental. p. 5. Retrieved 14 July 2021– via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Galemire, Julia. "Se dio a conocer los ganadores del concurso anual de literatura" [The Winners of the Annual Literature Contest]. La Onda Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  10. ↑ Barberis, Alicia (1996). "Concurso anual Colihue de novela juvenil 1995" [Annual Colihue Young Adult Novel Contest 1995]. Cruzar la noche (in Spanish). Ediciones Colihue SRL. p. 9. ISBN   9789505811281 . Retrieved 14 July 2021– via Google Books.
  11. ↑ "Resolución N° 2837/10" (in Spanish). Intendant of Montevideo. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Se entregaron los Premios Onetti 2016" [The 2016 Onetti Awards Presented] (in Spanish). Intendant of Montevideo. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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