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Life

Tacuarembó

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, Uruguay

Uruguay

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. He majored in Architecture and in 1996 graduated from the Universidad de la República in Montevideo

Montevideo

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. He travelled extensively to gather material that would later become part of his novels and essays, and was a professor at the Universidad Hispanoamericana of Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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and at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught art and mathematics.

In 2003 he entered the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

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, where he obtained a Master and a PhD

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in the Department of Romance Languages. He is a member of the scientific committee of Araucaria review of Spain, Araucaria, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and a Professional Member of PEN American Center

PEN American Center

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.http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/59834.He taught at the University of Georgia and was a professor at Lincoln University

Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

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in Pennsylvania. Currently he is a professor at Jacksonville University

Jacksonville University

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. Dr. Majfud has won many research awards including the Excellence in Research Award in Humanities and Letters. He is considered one of the greatest authors in Spanish language nowadays.

Works

His publications include:

Hacia qué patrias del silencio / memorias de un desaparecido (novel, 1996)
Crítica de la pasión pura (essays, 1998)
La reina de América (novel, 2001)
El tiempo que me tocó vivir (essays, 2004)
La narración de lo invisible / Significados ideológicos de América Latina (essays, 2006)
Perdona nuestros pecados (short stories, 2007)
La ciudad de la Luna (novel, 2009)

His stories and articles have been published in daily newspapers, magazines, and readers, such as El País and La República http://www.larepublica.com.uy/tapa of Montevideo, Rebellion, Hispanic Culture Review of George Mason University

George Mason University

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, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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, Pegaso of the University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

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, Washington University Political Review, United Nations Chronicle, UNICEF, Araucaria of Spain, etc. He has been the founder and editor of the magazine SigloXXI – reflexiones sobre nuestro tiempo. He is a contributor to El Pais, La República of Montevideo, La Vanguardia of Barcelona, Tiempos del Mundo of Washington, Monthly Review
Monthly Review
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of New York, Milenio of Mexico, Jornada of La Paz, Panama America, El Nuevo Herald
El Nuevo Herald
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of Miami, Página/12
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of Buenos Aires, Cambio16 of Spain, Centro Cervantes of Madrid, The Humanist of the American Humanist Association

American Humanist Association

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, Radio Uruguay, Radio Nacional de Argentina http://www.radionacional.com.ar/audios/especial-elecciones-en-estados-unidos-iii.html, Radio Exterior de España, Radio Popolare Roma and many other daily and weekly newspapers. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the magazine Araucaria http://alojamientos.us.es/araucaria/index.html in Spain.

His essays and articles have been translated into Portuguese, French, English, German, Italian, Basque, and Greek.

Awards

He has distinguished himself in different international contests, for example:

Mention at Premio Casa de las Américas
Casa de las Américas
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, in Habana, Cuba in 2001, for the novel La Reina de América, "because it stands out as an intense writing regarding the established powers by the use of parody and irony," according to the panel of judges composed of Belén Gopegui
Belén Gopegui
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(Spain), Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera
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(Argentina), Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico) and others
Excellence in Research Award, University of Georgia, 2006

External links

Books in WorldCat

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