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Jorge Majfud was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, in
1969. From an early age he read and wrote fiction,
but chose to major in Architecture and in 1996 he
graduated from the Universidad de la República in
Montevideo, Uruguay. His university studies and
interests led him to travel to more than forty
countries to gather, in an obsessive and
continuous way, pages that would later become part
of his novels and essays.  He was a professor at
the Universidad Hispanoamericana de Costa Rica and
at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught
Mathematics and Art. In 2003 he entered the
University of Georgia, where he also began
postgraduate studies in the Department of Romance
Languages.f  

 

Some publications: Hacia qué patrias del silencio
(memorias de un desaparecido), novel published for
the first time in 1996, by Editorial Graffiti,
Montevideo (latest edition: Baile del Sol, Spain
2001); Crítica de la pasión pura, essays 1998,
Editorial Graffiti, Montevideo (2nd edition
–selection-: 1999, HCR, Virginia, USA; 3rd
edition: 2000, Editorial Argenta, Buenos Aires);
La reina de América, novel (Baile del Sol,
Tenerife. 2002). He has contributed to the issue
Entre Siglos-Entre Séculos: Autores
Latinoamericanos a Fin de siglo, edited by Pilar
Ediçoes (Brasilia) and Bianchi Editores
(Montevideo), in 1999. 9 viajes (Ed. Trilce,
Montevideo, 2002).  His stories and articles have
been published in daily newspapers, magazines, and
readers, such as El País and La República of
Montevideo, Rebelion, Hispanic Culture Review of
George Mason University, etc.  He has been the
founder and editor of the magazine
SigloXXI-reflexiones sobre nuestro tiempo. He is a
habitual collaborator in Bitácora, weekly
publication of the daily newspaper La República
of Montevideo and of other daily and weekly
newspapers in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico,
Venezuela, Spain, France, Sweden, Canada, and the
United States. He is a member of the International
Scientific Committee of the magazine Araucaria in
Spain.  

 

He was distinguished in different international
contests, for example: Honor Mention in the XII
Certamen Literario Argenta, in Buenos Aires in
1999, for the first drafts of Crítica de la
pasión pura. Mention at Premio Casa de las
Américas, in Habana, Cuba in 2001, for the novel
La Reina de América, “because it stands out as
an intense writing regarding the established
powers by the use of parody and irony,�
according to the panel of judges composed of
Belén Copegui (Spain), Andrés Rivera
(Argentina), Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico),
Beatriz Maggi (Cuba), and José Luis Díaz
Granados (Colombia). Segundo Premio Concurso Caja
Profesional 2001, for the story Mabel Espera,
“for its posing of  annotated, harsh reality
written with valuable literary strategies,� in
the opinion of the panel of judges made up of
Sylvia Lago, Alicia Torres, and Mario Delgado
Aparaín.

 

His essays and articles have been translated into
Portuguese, French, English and German.  

2005