Washington Benavides
Washington Benavides (March 3, 1930 in Tacuarembó – September 24, 2017 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan poet and musician.
Writing career
During the 1950s Benavides 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 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 University of the Republic, Uruguay. He also worked in radio broadcasting. His poems have been set to music by Daniel Viglietti, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Héctor Numa Moraes , and Eduardo Darnauchans and in such piecez az "El instrumento",Bismark Vega " Dialogo de musicos", "Como un jazmín del país", "Milonga del Cordobés", "Yo no soy de por aquí", and "Tanta vida en cuatro versos".
Washington died on the 24th of September 2017 at the age of 87.
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)
External links
- Songs and milongas by Washington Benavides (in Spanish)
- El frasco azul y otros frascos. Ediciones Abrelabios (in Spanish)
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