Leonardo Garet
Garet at Cervantes Institute, Tel Aviv, 2003
BornNovember 1949
Salto, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
Known forLiterature
Notable workEl ojo en la piedra, El libro de los suicidas, Anabákoros
AwardsFraternity Award (2002)
Websitewww.leonardogaret.com.uy

Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer,[1] teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.

Biography

Leonardo Garet was born in Salto, Uruguay in 1949. He was a teacher from 1972 to 2008, mostly in private high schools Colegio y Liceo Nuestra Señora del Carmen and [Colegio y Liceo Carlos Vaz Ferreira in Salto. Also, he was Professor of Instituto de Estudios Superiores and Instituto de Filosofía Ciencias y Letras in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Garet is a poet, narrator, literary critic and cultural manager. He is the author of several books published in Uruguay and abroad. He has been a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Uruguay since 2008.

In 2002 he received the Fraternity Award for literature.[2]

Publications

Poetry

Narrative

Essays and literary criticism

Translations

Garet's stories and poems have been translated from Spanish to English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Chinese, Guaraní and Norwegian.

Anthology

Awards

References

  1. ^ Leonardo Garet is the new deputy director of Culture of the municipality of Salto
  2. ^ "Premio Fraternidad". LaRed21 (in Spanish). 6 December 2002. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  3. ^ Patio" by Leonardo Garet: a culminating work