Amir Hamed
- November 20, 2017
- 55 years
- cancer
About Amir Hamed
Amir Hamed, 55, Uruguayan writer and translator, cancer.
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Full Biography
|Amir Hamed (11 May 1962 – 20 November 2017) was a Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator.
Background and education
Born in Montevideo, he earned a degree in literature from the University of the Republic and a doctorate in Hispanoamerican literature from Northwestern University.
Works
- Novels
- Artigas Blues Band (1994)
- Troya Blanda (1996)
- Semidiós (2001)
- Febrero 30 (2016)
- Stories
- ¿Qué nos ponemos esta noche? (1992)
- Buenas noches, América (2003)
- Essays
- Retroescritura (1998)
- Orientales: Uruguay a través de su poesía Siglo XX (1996)
- Mal y neomal. Rudimentos de geoidiocia (2007)
- Porno y post porno (2009, in collaboration with Roberto Echavarren and Ercole Lissardi)
- Translations
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