María Esther Gilio

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. 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, , La Opinión, El País, La Nación, Clarín, and Página/12. 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) 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