María Esther Gilio

María Esther Gilio
Born1922 (1922)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died (aged 89)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • writer
  • lawyer
SpouseDarío Queigeiro
ChildrenCarmen, Isabel
AwardsCasa de las Américas Prize (1970)

María Esther Gilio (1922 – 27 August 2011) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer, biographer, and lawyer, distinguished for her contributions to newspapers of Uruguay and Argentina.[1][2] She also wrote for publications in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Chile, and Venezuela.

Biography

María Esther Gilio became a lawyer in 1957 and began working as a journalist in 1966 at the weekly Marcha, subsequently joining Brecha, Revista Plural, Tiempo Argentino, Crisis [es], La Opinión, El País, La Nación, Clarín, and Página/12.[1]

She produced valuable interviews with relevant figures of the River Plate region and international culture, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Aníbal Troilo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gonzalo Fonseca, José Saramago, Mario Benedetti, Vittorio Gassman, Augusto Roa Bastos, China Zorrilla, Adolfo Bioy Casares, José Donoso, Fernando Vallejo, Noam Chomsky, Abelardo Castillo, and Luis Pérez Aguirre.[1]

She lived in exile in Paris in 1972, in Argentina from 1973 to 1976 and 1978 to 1985, and in Brazil from 1976 to 1978. In 1990 she again took up residence in Montevideo.[1]

Her interviews were part of Onetti's biography Construcción de la noche: La vida de Juan Carlos Onetti (Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1993).[3] In 1993 Conversaciones con María Esther Gilio was published, and in 2008 she joined the roster of Diálogos con la cultura uruguaya (published by El País).

Select publications

  • La guerrilla tupamara, 1970 (Casa de las Américas Prize)[4][5]
  • Personas y personajes, 1973
  • Diálogo con Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, 1984
  • Construcción en la noche: la vida de Juan Carlos Onetti, 1993
  • Terra da felicidade, 1997
  • El cholo González, un cañero de Bella Unión, 2004
  • Pepe Mujica: de Tupamaro a ministro, 2005
  • Aurelio el fotógrafo o la pasión de vivir, 2006[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Periodismo y compromiso" [Journalism and Compromise]. Página/12 (in Spanish). 29 August 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  2. ^ Casal Beck, Luis (28 August 2011). "A los 83 años, falleció la periodista María Esther Gilio" [At Age 83, the Journalist María Esther Gilio Passes Away]. LaRed21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Cuando ya no importe: tres preguntas sin resputa a M. E" [When It No Longer Matters: Three Questions to M. E Without a Reply] (in Spanish). Juan Carlos Onetti. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ^ "María Esther Gilio" (in Spanish). Ministry of Education and Culture. 29 August 2011.
  5. ^ González, Cecilia (2010). "Violencia política y literatura en Uruguay" [Political Violence and Literature in Uruguay]. Las armas y las letras [The Weapons and the Letters] (in Spanish). Presses Univ de Bordeaux. p. 267. ISBN 9782867816789. Retrieved 19 December 2017 – via Google Books. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Aurelio: la pasión de vivir" [Aurelio: The Passion of Living]. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 12 November 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2017.

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