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Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history.
Literature properly speaking starts inUruguay with the country-flavoured poetry ofBartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of theRomantic period areAdolfo Berro andJuan Zorrilla de San Martín.ll
Julio Herrera y Reissig was one of thefin-de-sièclemodernistas, two leading women areJuana de Ibarbourou, who was one of the most popular writers ofSpanish America,[1] andDelmira Agustini.Emilio Frugoni andEmilio Oribe were distinguished lyricists.
Outstanding among the prose and fiction figures areJuan Carlos Onetti,Carlos Martínez Moreno,Eduardo Galeano,Felisberto Hernández,Mario Benedetti,Tomás de Mattos,Mauricio Rosencof andJorge Majfud.
Horacio Quiroga was a popular playwright and short-story writer.[2]Constancio C. Vigil was once a beloved, if highly moralistic, children's writer.
Jorge Luis Borges, while Argentine, was a commentator on the Uruguayan historical and cultural scene; some of his characters are realisticallyUruguayan.Florencio Sánchez remains Uruguay's most famous theater writer.
While many ofUruguay's writers have been primarily connected with the capitalMontevideo, a number have been identified with the north of the country.
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