Idea Vilariño

Idea Vilariño

A young Idea Vilariño
Born (1920-08-18)August 18, 1920
Montevideo
Died April 28, 2009(2009-04-28) (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)[1] 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.

Biography

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 her life. Just like her brothers, Numen, 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 Faculty of Education of Humanities and Sciences of The University of the Republic.

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.

She integrated the generation of writers diverse nature that arose artistically from 1945 to 1950 that were called the Generación del 45. Among the Generación del 45 the following authors can be found: 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 y José Pedro Díaz entre otros.

La Generación del 45 for the occasion of the visit of Juan Ramón Jiménez. From left to right, unemployed: María Zulema Silva Vila, Manuel Arturo Claps, Carlos Maggi, María Inés Silva Vila, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Idea Vilariño, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Ángel Rama. Sentados: José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Zenobia Camprubí, Ida Vitale, Elda Lago, and Manuel Flores Mora.

She participated in numerous literary ventures. She was concretely between two founders of the magazines Clinamen, and Número, between 1945-1955 (where she met Juan Ramón Jiménez); and she was found between the collaborators of other publications like Marcha, La Opinión, Brecha, Asir, and Texto crítico.

Idea Vilariño at her desk in 1983

Her translations also have been the object of recognition, with some arriving (like the more recognized works of Shakespeare) to be represented in the theaters of Montevideo.[2]

In 1997, she was interviewed by Rosario Peyrou and Pablo Rocca, from where the documentary Idea arose, directed by Mario Jacob, that premiered in May 1998.[3]

Her work has been translated to various languages, like Italian, German, and Portuguese.[4]

As a composer, four emblematic songs can be mentioned that are pertinent to popular Uruguayan music: A una paloma (played by Daniel Viglietti), La canción y el poema (played by Alfredo Zitarrosa), Los orientales y Ya me voy pa' la guerrilla (played by Los Olimareños).

In 2004, she received the Premio Konex (Konex prize) MERCOSUR a las Letras, granted by the Konex Foundation (Argentina), as the most influential writer of the region.[5]

Later, she had to undergo a surgery that gave her an intestinal and arterial occlusion. She did not recover, and passed away in Montevideo the 28th of April, 2009.

Works

Poetry

Essays

Translations

References

  1. "Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño dies". El País. 28 April 2009.
  2. "Idea Vilariño". Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (in Spanish). 2016-10-06.
  3. "Poemas de IDEA VILARIÑO". www.poemaspoetas.com. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  4. "Fernando Casales: Idea Vilariño: Eros y Tanathos - nº 34 Espéculo (UCM)". pendientedemigracion.ucm.es. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  5. Factory, Troop Software. "Fundación Konex". Retrieved 2016-11-02.

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