Hugo Achugar is a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, essayist, and researcher.

Biography

Achugar graduated from the Artigas Institute for Teachers (Instituto de Profesores Artigas or IPA) with a degree in literature, and taught secondary education until, dismissed by the dictatorship, he relocated to Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

. In Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

, he worked as a researcher for the Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history....

 Center for Latin American Studies

Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies

Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies , is a foundation of the Venezuelan government for the study and promotion of Latin American culture, with emphasis on the life and work of Rómulo Gallegos.Created on July 30, 1974, by decree of the President of the National Institute of Culture and...

 (CELARG).

He has held professorships in Venezuela, the United States, and Uruguay. He currently teaches at the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

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Dr. Achugar does not spell his name with stress on the "u". It is just "Achugar" .

Poetry

• El derrumbe (1968)
• Con bigote triste (1971)
• Mi país / mi casa (1973)
• Textos para decir María (1976)
• Seis mariposas tropicales (1986)
• Las mariposas tropicales (1987)
• Todo lo que es sólido se disuelve en el aire (1989)
• Orfeo en el salón de la memoria (1991)
• El cuerpo del Bautista (1996)
• Hueso quevrado (2006)

Criticism

• Ideologías y estructuras narratives en José Donoso (1950-1970) (1979)
• Poesía y sociedad (Uruguay, 1880-1911) (1986)
• La balsa de la Medusa (1992)
• La biblioteca en ruinas: reflexiones culturales desde la periferia (1994)
• Escritos sobre arte, cultura, y literature (2003)

External links

• homepage at the University of Miami