Álvaro Ojeda

Álvaro Ojeda (born 1 April 1958) is an Uruguayan writer, journalist, novelist, poet and reviewer.^[1]

Biography

Ojeda was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He's a member of the new contemporary Uruguayan writers of the 80s generation, who started to publish after the end of de facto government (1973–1985). His work was translated or published in Argentine, Spain, Canada, Hungary, Poland, Mexico and Sweden. He currently writes for Suplemento Cultural of Diario El País de Montevideo and Semanario Brecha.

Recently, on 2008, his last novel, "La fascinación" ("fascination") was selected as one of the ten finalists of Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América.

Works

Poetry

• Ofrecidos al mago sueño (1988) (Ediciones Banda Oriental)
• En un brillo de olvido (1988) (Ediciones Banda Oriental)
• Alzheimer (1992) (Ediciones de Uno)
• Los universos inútiles de Austen Henry Layard (1996) (Ediciones de Último Reino, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Substancias de Calcedonia (2002) (Revista Artefacto literario)
• Luz de cualquiera de los doce meses (2003) (Civiles Iletrados)
• Toda sombra me es grata (2006) (Delfos Poesía)

Novels

• El hijo de la pluma (2004) (Planeta)
• La fascinación (2008) (Planeta)
• " Máximo" (2010)

References