Washington Benavides
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Washington Benavides is a Uruguay
an poet and musician.
, 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 University of the Republic, Uruguay
. He has also worked in radio broadcasting. His poems have been set to music by Daniel Viglietti
, Alfredo Zitarrosa
, and Héctor Numa Moraes. Examples include "Como un jazmín del país", "Milonga del Cordobés", "Yo no soy de por aquí", and "Tanta vida en cuatro versos".
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
an poet and musician.
Writing career
During the 1950s he collaborated on the review Asir. In 1955 he published his first book, Tata Vizcacha, 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 BordaberryJuan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who first served as President from 1972 until 1976, including as a dictator from 1973 until his ouster in a 1976 coup...
, 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 University of the Republic, Uruguay
University of the Republic, Uruguay
The University of the Republic is Uruguay's public university. It is the most important and country's largest university, with a student body of more than 80,000 students. It was founded on July 18, 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current...
. He has also worked in radio broadcasting. His poems have been set to music by Daniel Viglietti
Daniel Viglietti
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s.He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José...
, Alfredo Zitarrosa
Alfredo Zitarrosa
Alfredo Zitarrosa Alfredo Zitarrosa Alfredo Zitarrosa (b. March 10, 1936, d. on January 17, 1989 in Montevideo, Uruguay; a Uruguayan singer, composer, poet, writer and journalist...
, and Héctor Numa Moraes. Examples include "Como un jazmín del país", "Milonga del Cordobés", "Yo no soy de por aquí", and "Tanta vida en cuatro versos".
Works
- Tata Vizcacha (1955)
- El Poeta (1959)
- A un hermano (1962)
- Poesía (1963)
- Las Milongas -la obra más difundida- (1966)
- Poemas de la ciega (1968)
- Los Sueños de la Razón (1968)
- Historias (1971)
- Hokusai (1975)
- Fontefrida (1979)
- Murciélagos (1981)
- Finisterre (1985)
- Fotos (1986)
- Tía Cloniche (1990)
- Lección de exorcista (1991)
- El molino del agua -Premio Nacional y Municipal- (1993)
- La luna negra y el professor (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)