Washington Benavides

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Washington Benavides (3 March 1930 – 24 September 2017) was a Uruguayan poet, profesor and musician.

Writing career

Benavides was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. During the 1950s, Benavides contributed to the magazine Asir. In 1955, he published his first book Tata Vizcach, a satire of various personalities in his native city. After that he devoted himself heavily to poetry, eventually earning himself a place among the most important Uruguayan poets of his generation. During the dictatorship of Juan María Bordaberry, he promoted the revolutionary possibilities of popular music.

Benavides taught literature at the secondary level. He later joined the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Letters of the

Washington died in Montevideo, Uruguay on 24 September 2017 at the age of 87.

Works

• Tata Vizcacha (1955)
• El Poeta (1959)
• A un hermano (1962)
• Poesía (1963)
• Las milongas (1966)
• Poemas de la ciega (1968)
• Los sueños de la razón (1968)
• Historias (1971)
• Hokusai (1975)
• Fontefrida (1979)
• Murciélago (1981)
• Finisterre (1985)
• Fotos (1986)
• Tía Cloniche (1990)
• Lección de exorcista (1991)
• El molino del agua (1993) -Premio Nacional y Municipal-
• La luna negra y el profesor (1994)
• Los restos del mamut (1995)
• Canciones de doña Veus (1998)
• El mirlo y la misa (2000)
• Los pies clavados (2000)
• Biografía de Caín (2001)
• Un viejo trovador (2004)
• Diarios del Iporá (2006)

External links

• Media related to Washington Benavides at Wikimedia Commons
• Songs and milongas by Washington Benavides (in Spanish)
• El frasco azul y otros frascos. Ediciones Abrelabios (in Spanish)
• Washington Benavides recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on June 16, 1977
• Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Ronald Haladyna includes several poems by Benavides followed by English translations.

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