the mexican writer Alvaro Uribe He died at the age of 68 in a hospital in the Mexico City following being hospitalized for a revision for problems that have plagued him for years.
Originally from Mexico City, Uribe highlighted in the mexican letters as a narrator and essayist.
Today, with deep sadness, we say goodbye to our dear friend Álvaro Uribe (1953-2022), narrator and essayist.
He was editor, adviser and always active member in diverse projects of @culturaunam.
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— Literature and Reading Promotion UNAM (@LiteraturaUNAM) March 3, 2022
He was also editor, adviser and active member in projects of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (SINGLE).
As a diplomat, Uribe had a career as a cultural attaché at the Embassy of Mexico on Nicaragua as well as attache and cultural adviser at the embassy of Mexico on France.
In 2008 he obtained the Ibero-American Novel Prize Elena Poniatowska by ‘File of the attack’ and in 2014, the Xavier Villaurrutia Writers Award for Writers for ‘Family self-portrait with dog’.
Among the works of Alvaro Uribe there are ‘Topos’, ‘The never-ending story’, ‘The hearing of the birds’, ‘The lantern of the dead’, ‘Remembrance of Federico Gamboa’, ‘The other half’, ‘By his name’, ‘The workshop of time’, ‘The lottery of Saint George’ and ‘The ideal part’.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital