Idea Vilariño
| Idea Vilariño | |
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A young Idea Vilariño
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| Born |
August 18, 1920 Montevideo |
| Died | April 28, 2009 (aged 88) Montevideo |
| Nationality | Uruguayan |
| Occupation | writer, poet, essayist, professor, translator, literary critic. |
| Movement | Generación del 45 |
Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 18 August 1920 – 28 April 2009) was a Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic.
She belonged to the group of intellectuals known as "Generación del 45" In this generation, there are several writers such as Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Sarandy Cabrera, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Ángel Rama, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Maggi, Alfredo Gravina, Mario Arregui, Amanda Berenguer, Humberto Megget, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Gladys Castelvecchi and José Pedro Díaz among others.
She also worked as a translator, composer and lecturer.
She was born in an educated, middle class family; in that time, music and literature were always present. Her father, Leandro Vilariño (1892-1944), was a poet whose works were not edited in his lifetime. Just like her siblings, , Poema, Azul, and Alma, she studied music. Her mother was very well educated in European literature.
As an educator in exercise, she was a professor of literature and secondary education since 1952 until The Coup of 1973. After the restoration of the democratic system, she was a professor in the department of Uruguayan and Latin-American literature in the of .
She wrote since she was very young, and her first mature poems were designed between 17 and 21 years old. Her first poetic work, La suplicante, was edited in 1945 with only her name. In the subsequent years, she would become recognized internationally and awarded with various awards. Her poems were marked by an intimate experience, intense and distressing, but always very coherent.
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