Eduardo Acevedo Díaz

Died in 1921

Eduardo Acevedo Díaz was born on 20 April 1851 in Villa de la Unión, near Montevideo. In 1870 he left the law faculty to join a revolt of the Partido Blanco against the government, and he took part in three civil wars. A journalist, he founded and edited several newspapers, including El Nacional from 1895, and spent long years in exile in Argentina, where he wrote the bulk of his work. A senator, expelled from his party in 1903 for having supported Batlle y Ordóñez, he then represented Uruguay in the United States. He died in Buenos Aires on 18 June 1921, without having returned to his country.

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NovelSoledadEduardo Acevedo Díaz · 1894not translated into EnglishLiterature