Hector Rosales

Hector Rosales (born April, 1958 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan poet and writer. As a child, he lived in the Aires Puros barrio (neighborhood) on Burges Avenue, near Fazenda Ipiranga Airport. He attended a local elementary school before moving up to the Mother Ana Lyceum. In 1992, he moved to Barcelona and from 1993 to 1995 he ran a language school there. From November 1994 to September 1996, he edited the folios for The Leaves of the Flood, an anthology of Latin American and Spanish poets.

From 2000 to 2006, he was a member of the governing body of the English Library. He currently manages a group of schools in the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

Rosales credits Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994), short story writer and novelist with having the greatest influence on its own writings. Onetti was imprisoned in 1974 for disseminating a short story by Nelson Marra (“The Bodyguard”) whose subject matter offended the military dictatorship in Uruguay.

The works of Hector Rosales have been translated into English, Italian, German, Polish, Catalan and Galician. Rosales continues to write, at his leisure, away from the public and media splendor. He also continues to promote the works of his fellow Uruguayan writers as well as continuing on with his travels, all things which he says are in a constant battle with his “unique and disproportionate enemy:time.”

Works Poetry Visions and agonies (Barcelona, 1979, 2nd ed. revised and expanded, New Jersey, 2000) Mirrors at night (Madrid, 1981) Folder 1 (Barcelona, 1982) Dende eigui / booklet (Pontevedra, 1983) Spectra (Gijon, 1983) Desvuelo (1st ed. Montevideo, Barcelona, 1984, 2nd ed. Revised and expanded: Barcelona, 1997, 3rd ed. 1999, 4th ed.-book, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2001, 5th ed. Pdf, Mexico 2004) Four texts / fold (Barcelona, 1985) Five poems (in supplement magazine “Calandrajas” No. 15, Toledo, 1987) Rails / booklet (Barcelona, 1989) Around the siege (Montevideo, three eds., 1989/92/93, first prize in 1992, the Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay) Four postal Sweden / fold ( four eds., 1992/93/94 Barcelona, Mexico, ed. Pdf, 2005) Inhabitants cry incomplete (Montevideo, 1992) The inverted spring / booklet (five eds., 1994/96/2003 Barcelona, the latter increased, and Santiago de Compostela, 1995, with Galician version integrating Olisbos University Magazine, No. 17) While rain does not erase the traces (Barcelona, 2002)

Anthologies Voices in stone lit / Ten Uruguayan poet (Toledo, 1988) Chappies, the spines of the verse (Montevideo, 2001)