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Manuel Pérez Y Curis
Manuel Pérez y Curis (May 21, 1884 – November 22, 1920) was a Uruguayan poet, born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Biography Pérez y Curis was the son of Julián Pérez Rial and Manuela Curis. ''Apolo'' magazine, which appeared monthly and contained articles on art and sociology, is the main source of his written work. his main written work. Another important work is ''La arquitectura del verso'' (The Architecture of the Verse) (1913), published in France and in Mexico; the writing secretary was Ovidio Fernández Ríos. The critic and essayist Alberto Zum Felde published in this magazine ''La Hiperbórea'' and ''Lulú Margat''. The work of Uruquayan poet Delmira Agustini appeared in almost every issue of ''Apolo''. Her poem "Las coronas" appeared in 1908. Stricken by tuberculosis, Pérez y Curis died in 1920, at the age of 36. Works * ''Revista Apolo'' (1905–1909) * ''La arquitectura del verso'' (1913) * ''Romances y seguidillas del Plata'' (1940, Posthumous) * ''Heliostrop ...
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Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. A Portuguese garrison was established in the place where today is the city of Montevideo in November 1723. The Portuguese garrison was expelled in February 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the Río de la Plata Basin, platine region. There is no official document establishing the foundation of the city, but the "Diario" of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala officially mentions the date of 24 December 1726 as the foundation, corroborated by presential witnesses. The complete independence from Buenos Aires as a real city was not ...
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Ovidio Fernández Ríos
Ovidio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ovidio G. Assonitis (born 1943), independent film producer and businessman * Ovidio Cervi of the Cervi Brothers, the seven sons of Alcide Cervi and Genoveffa Cocconi * Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet (born 1963), retired road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina * Ovidio García (born 1968), Spanish former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics * Dorian Ovidio Guachalla (born 1977), Bolivian male former volleyball player * Ovidio Guaita, journalist, photographer and traveller *Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago (1941–2014), Roman Catholic bishop * Ovidio de Jesús (1933–2011), Puerto Rican sprinter * Ovidio Lagos (1825–1891), Argentine journalist, businessman and politician * Ovidio Lari (1919–2007), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Aosta *Ovídio Martins (1928–1999), famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist *Santo Ovídio, Portuguese saint *Ovídio Manuel Barbosa P ...
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Alberto Zum Felde
Alberto Zum Felde (Bahía Blanca, 30 May 1887, 1888 or 1889Red Académica UruguayaAlberto Zum Felde – Montevideo, 6 May 1976) was a Uruguayans, Uruguayan historian, critic and essayist. As shown by Arturo Ardao, Zum Felde is very relevant among the currents of thought of philosophy of culture in the Americas. He was one of the nine founding members of the Academia Nacional de Letras, Uruguayan Academy of Letters.Academia Nacional de Letras


Selected works

* ''El Huanakauri'' (1917). * ''Proceso histórico del Uruguay: esquema de una sociología nacional'' (1919). * ''Crítica de la literatura uruguaya'' (1921). * ''Estética del 900'' (1929). * ''Proceso intelectual del Uruguay: crítica de su literatura'' (1930). * ''Índice de la poesía urug ...
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Delmira Agustini
Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914) was a Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century. Biography Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, she began writing when she was ten and had her first book of poems published when she was still a teenager. She wrote for the magazine ''La Alborada'' (The Dawn). She formed part of the Generation of 1900, along with Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Quiroga. Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet, was an important influence for her. She looked up to him as a teacher. Darío compared Agustini to Teresa of Ávila, stating that Agustini was the only woman writer since the saint to express herself as a woman. She specialized in the topic of female sexuality during a time when the literary world was dominated by men. Agustini's writing style is best classified in the first phase of modernism, with themes based on fantasy and exotic subjects. Eros, god of love, symbolizes eroticism and is the inspiration to Agustini's poems abou ...
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El Día (Uruguay)
''El Día'' is an influential Uruguayan daily newspaper. It was established in 1886 by the prominent Colorado politician José Batlle y Ordóñez. Many of the most important Uruguayan politicians and journalists wrote in its pages: Luis Batlle Berres, Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco, Manuel Flores Mora, Manuel Flores Silva, Jorge Pacheco Areco, Julio María Sanguinetti, Enrique Tarigo Enrique E. Tarigo Vázquez (15 September 1927 – 14 December 2002) was a Uruguayan jurist and political figure. Background He was a lawyer and University professor. Vice President of Uruguay He was Vice President of Uruguay from 1985 to 1990, ..., Rodolfo Fattoruso, Alberto Scavarelli, Dora Isella Russell, Rafael Franzini-Batlle, Miguel A. Semino, Mario C. Fernández, Adolfo Castells Mendívil, Daniel Orzuj, Leonardo Guzmán, Horacio Ferrer, Pablo Vierci, etc., as well as the exiled Galician writer Lois Tobío Fernández. A Sunday supplement was also established by Lorenzo Batlle Pach ...
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El Pais (Uruguay)
EL, El or el may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in the Superman dynasty * E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film ''Road Trip'' Music * Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él ''(Lucerito album), a 1982 album by Lucerito * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from the album '' Caminando'' * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry performed by Lucía in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 Other media * ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 1991 Japanese adult visual novel * EL TV, an Azerbaijani regional television channel Companies and organizations * Estée Lauder Compan ...
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Uruguayan Male Poets
Uruguayans () are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent. Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and their allegiance to Uruguay. Colloquially, primarily among other Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, Uruguayans are also referred to as "'' orientals s in Easterners'" (). Uruguay is, along with much of the Americas, a melting pot of different peoples, with the difference that it has traditionally maintained a model that promotes cultural assimilation, hence the different cultures have been absorbed by the mainstream. Uruguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America; the most common ethnic backgrounds by far being those from Spain, Italy, Germany and France i.e. Spanish Uruguayans, Italian Uruguayans, German Uruguayans, French Uruguayans and Polish Uruguayans. Immigration waves Most Uruguayans des ...
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1884 Births
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera '' Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates '' Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the '' Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real event ...
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1920 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own market town. * January 7 – Russian Civil War: The forces of White movement, Russian White Admiral Alexander Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk; the Great Siberian Ice March ensues. * January 10 ** The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. ** The League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16, the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris. * January 11 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is recognised de facto by European powers in Palace of Versailles, Versailles. * January 13 – ''The New York Times'' Robert H. Goddard#Publicity and criticism, ridicules American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, which it will rescind following the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. * Janua ...
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Writers From Montevideo
A writer is a person who uses writing, written words in different writing styles, List of writing genres, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, Short story, short stories, monographs, Travel literature, travelogues, Play (theatre), plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and Article (publishing), news articles that may be of interest to the Public, general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of Mass media, media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the Culture, cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition ...
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