Leonardo Garet


Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.

Biography

Leonardo Garet was born in Salto, Uruguay in 1949. He was a teacher from 1972 to 2008, mostly in private high schools Colegio y Liceo Nuestra Señora del Carmen and Colegio y Liceo [Carlos Vaz Ferreira in Salto. Also, he was Professor of Instituto de Estudios Superiores and Instituto de Filosofía Ciencias y Letras in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Garet is a poet, narrator, literary critic and cultural manager. He is the author of several books published in Uruguay and abroad. He has been a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Uruguay since 2008.
In 2002 he received the Fraternity Award for literature.

Publications

Poetry

Garet's stories and poems have been translated from Spanish to English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Chinese, Guaraní and Norwegian.

Anthology