Jorge Majfud

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Jorge Majfud
Jorge Majfud

Jorge Majfud (1969—) is a Uruguayan writer.

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[edit] Life

He was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He majored in Architecture and in 1996 graduated from the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. He travelled extensively to gather material that would later become part of his novels and essays, and was a professor at the Universidad Hispanoamericana de Costa Rica and at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught mathematics and art.

In 2003 he entered the University of Georgia, where he also began postgraduate studies in the Department of Romance Languages. Master of Art in Literature, he currently teaches Latin American Literature at The University of Georgia.

[edit] 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)

His stories and articles have been published in daily newspapers, magazines, and readers, such as El País and La República of Montevideo, Rebellion, Hispanic Culture Review of George Mason University, 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 of New York, Milenio of Mexico, Jornada of La Paz, Página/12 of Buenos Aires, Centro Cervantes of Madrid and many other daily and weekly newspapers. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the magazine Araucaria in Spain.

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

[edit] Awards

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

  • Honorable mention in the XII Certamen Literario Argenta, in Buenos Aires in 1999, for the first drafts of Crítica de la pasión pura
  • Mention at Premio Casa de las Américas, 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 (Spain), Andrés Rivera and others
  • Segundo Premio Concurso Caja Professional 2001, for the story Mabel Espera, “for its posing of annotated, harsh reality written with valuable literary strategies,” in the opinion of the panel of judges made up of Sylvia Lago, Alicia Torres, and Mario Delgado Aparaín
  • Excellence in Research Award, University of Georgia, 2006

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