Teresa Amy

Teresa Amy (15 October 1950 – 30 January 2017) was a Uruguayan teacher, poet, and translator.

Biography Teresa Amy was born in Montevideo on 15 October 1950. She studied linguistics and translation at the University of the Republic. She lived in Prague, Czech Republic for a year, and attended Charles University, where she studied Czech language and grammar for foreigners. She also earned a diploma in French language translation from Alliance Française.

As a translator, she completed the first Spanish editions of Czech poet Jan Skácel, and also translated works by Miloš Crnjanski and . She prepared a selection of Macedonian poets, Sobre el hilo que se llama tiempo, and the Czech poetry anthologies Animales silenciosos and 20 del XX. In 2011 she published the poetry collection Jade, which received an Annual Literature Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture. In 2013 she published Un huésped en casa, memorias de una traducción, in which she analyzes the craft of translation. She took part in international poetry festivals such as the Poetic Evenings of Struga (Macedonia, 2001), Salida al Mar (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010), and the Carlos Pellicer Cámara Ibero-American Poetry Encounter (Villahermosa, Mexico, 2016).

She worked as a French and Spanish language teacher at the .

She was married to the writer and journalist . Fressia adds: "It is impossible, indeed, not to admire her skill with language, the wise interruptions of the syntactic flow, and the ability to create a narrative with a succession of nominal groups, as in her poem 'Inventario mediterráneo', an economy of language comparable only to the famous 'Le message' by Jacques Prévert."

Works Corazón de roble (1995), poetry, Vintén Editor, Retratos del Merodeador y otros poemas (1999), poetry, Vintén Editor, La más larga de las noches (2002), translation – in collaboration with Alfredo Infanzón – of the work by Czech poet Jan Skácel, Editorial Ácrono, Mexico Lamento por Belgrado (2003), translation – in collaboration with Lazar Manojlovic – of Lament nad Beogradom by Serbian poet Miloš Crnjanski, Editorial Ácrono, Mexico Cuaderno de las islas (2003), poetry, Ediciones del Mirador, Cortejo Mínimo (2005), poetic work that also contains a translation of "Salón de la luna" by Macedonian writer , Artefato, Cincuenta poetas uruguayos del medio siglo (1955–2005) (2005), selection of Uruguayan poets, with prologue and notes by Gerardo Ciancio, Archivo General de la Nación, Centro de Difusión del Libro, Montevideo, Jade (2011), poetry, Yagurú, Un huésped en casa, memorias de una traducción (2013), Yagurú, Brilla: 20 poemas para Marco (2014), poetry, Yagurú, 20 del XX: poetas checos (2017), selection and translation of 20 Czech poets, La Otra and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey,