Álvaro Ojeda is an Uruguay

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 writer, journalist, novelist, poet and reviewer.

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

De facto

De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning fact." In law, it often means "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but not officially established." It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or...

 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.

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)