Jorge Majfud facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Jorge Majfud
Majfud at Jacksonville University in 2013
Born	(1969-09-10) September 10, 1969 (age 55) Tacuarembo, Uruguay
Education	University of Georgia (MA, PhD)
Period	20th / 21st-century literature
Genre	Western literature

Jorge Majfud (born September 10, 1969) is a Uruguayan American professor and writer.

Life

He was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He received a professional degree in Architecture in 1996 from the University of the Republic in Montevideo and studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He traveled extensively to gather material that would later become part of his novels and essays and was a professor at the University of Costa Rica and at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught art and mathematics.

In 2003 he entered the University of Georgia, where he obtained a Masters and a Ph.D. in the Department of Romance Languages. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Araucaria review of Spain, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and a Professional Member of PEN American Center. He taught at the University of Georgia and was a professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Currently, he is a professor at Jacksonville University. Majfud has won many the Excellence in Research Award in Humanities and Letters 2006, Casa de las Américas prize 2001, Juan Rulfo Award finalist 2011, Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Professional Activities, Jacksonville University, 2013, and winner Premio Letterario Internazionale Indipendente Settima edizione Award (The Independent International Literary Award 2019, Italy).

His novels and essays are under study in different universities in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America. "He is one of the most important writers of a new generation of Uruguayan intellectuals". In 2012, readers of the American magazine Foreign Policy (now EsGlobal in Spanish) recognized him as "The Most Influential Latin American Intellectual" He delivered public lectures at many universities and events around the world.

In 2024, Caras & Caretas magazine published that according to Artificial Intelligence, Jorge Majfud was among the ten most recognized Uruguayans in the world.

Works

His publications include:

• Hacia qué patrias del silencio / memorias de un desaparecido (novel, 1996)
• Crítica de la pasión pura (essays, 1998)
• La reina de América (novel, 2001)
• El tiempo que me tocó vivir (essays, 2004)
• La narración de lo invisible / Significados ideológicos de América Latina (essays, 2006)
• Perdona nuestros pecados (short stories, 2007)
• La ciudad de la Luna (novel, 2009) [1]
• Crisis (novel, 2012)
• Cyborgs (essays, 2012)
• El eterno retorno de Quetzalcoátl, 2012. [2]
• Cuentos, audiobook, 2014
• Cine político latinoamericano, essays, 2014
• Herrmenéutica, essays, 2014
• El pasado siempre vuelve, short stories, 2014
• Algo salió mal, short stories, 2015
• El mar estaba sereno, novel, 2017
• USA. ¿Confía Dios en nosotros?, essays, 2017
• Neomedievalism. Reflections on the Post-Enlightenment Era, essays, 2018
• Tequila, novel, 2018
• El mismo fuego, novel, 2019
• Perros sí, negros no, essays, 2020
• Silicona 5.0, novel, 2020
• La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América latina, history essay, 2021
• La privatización de la verdad. La continuidad de la ideología esclavista en Estados Unidos, essay, 2021
• El otoño de la plutocracia estadounidense, essays, 2023
• Teología del dinero, essays, 2023
• Moscas en la telaraña: Historia de la comercialización de la existencia―y sus medios, essays, 2023
• Palestina: El Vietnam de la Generación Alfa", ensayos, 2023.
• La prisión sin muros: Reflexiones sobre la crisis de las democracias liberales, ensayos, 2024.
• El fin de la Pax Americana, ensayos Universidad de Valencia 2024.

As contributor or editor

• 2020, Crónicas del coronavirus (Editorial Irreverentes) ISBN: 978-8417481490
• 2020, Diccionario de autobiografías intelectuales (Universidad Nacional de Lanus) ISBN: 978-987-4937-54-4
• 2019, Unwanted People (University of Valencia Press, PUV) by Aviva Chomsky. ISBN: 978-84-9134-456-8
• 2018, Cinco entrevistas a Noam Chomsky (Le Monde Diplomatique / Editorial Aun Creemos en los Sueños) by Michel Foucault, Ignacio Ramonet, Daniel Mermet, Jorge Majfud y Federico Kukso. ISBN: 978-956-340-126-4
• 2018, "Vsa teža zakona" (Zgodbe iz Urugvaja. Antologija sodobne urugvajske kratke proze/Anthology of contemporary Uruguayan short prose). Translated by Yuri Kunaver. ISBN: 978-961-6970-91-4
• 2017, The Routledge History of Latin American Culture (Edited by Carlos Manuel Salomon) ISBN: 978-1138902565 Routledge Histories.
• 2017, Pertenencia. Narradores sudamericanos en Estados Unidos. Antología. (Melanie Márquez Adams, Hemil García Linares, editores). Ars Communis Editorial, Publisher. ISBN: 978-0997289039.
• 2016, Ruido Blanco. Antología de cuentos de ciencia ficción uruguaya. (Mónica Marchesky, coordinador) ISBN: 9974844347 M Ed.
• 2013, De la indignación a la rebeldía (con Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Taibo y Slavoj Zizek). ISBN: 9788415353553. Ediciones Irreverentes.
• 2012. Ilusionistas. , by Noam Chomsky. Edition, translation, and introduction. ISBN: 978-84-15353-46-1. Ediciones Irreverentes.
• 2012, Antología de Nueva York. ISBN: 978-84-939322-5-1. Ediciones Irreverentes.
• 2012, Antología de ciencia ficción, 2099. ISBN: 978-84-15353-38-6. Ediciones Irreverentes.
• 2011, Microantología del Microrrelato III. ISBN: 978-84-15353-15-7.
• 2011, Truman, Hiroshima. ISBN: 8496959872 (con Eduardo Galeano) Ediciones Irreverentes.
• 2010, Microantología del Microrrelato II. ISBN: 978-84-96959-76-7.
• 2010, Entre Orientales y Atlantes. Antología de relatos uruguayo-canaria. ISBN: 9788415019299. Editorial Baile del Sol.
• 2007, Las palabras pueden. ISBN: 9789280641608. (con Ernesto Sábato, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago y otros ) United Nations Children's Fund (New York: UNICEF-UN).
• 2008, Los testimonios, de Roque Dalton. ISBN: 9788496225763. Baile del Sol.
• 2008, Diccionario alternativo. ISBN: 9789507866531. (con Hugo Biagini y Arturo Andrés Roig). Aguilar/Alfaguara.
• 2007, América Latina hacia su segunda independencia. ISBN: 9789870406976 (con Hugo Biagini y Arturo Andrés Roig. Aguilar / Alfaguara.
• 1999, Entre siglos/Entre séculos. ISBN: 9974663059.

His stories and articles have been published in daily newspapers, magazines, and readers, such as El País of Madrid, El País and La República [3] of Montevideo, Courrier International of Paris [4], Rebellion, Hispanic Culture Review of George Mason University, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana of Dartmouth College, Pegaso of the University of Oklahoma, Texas State University, Washington University Political Review, Chasqui of Arizona State University, Hispamerica of University of Maryland, United Nations Chronicle, UNICEF, Araucaria of Spain, etc. He has been the founder and editor of the magazine SigloXXI – reflexiones sobre nuestro tiempo. He is a contributor to El Pais, La República of Montevideo, La Vanguardia of Barcelona, Tiempos del Mundo of Washington, Monthly Review of New York, The Huffington Post, Milenio of Mexico, Jornada of La Paz, Panama America, El Nuevo Herald of Miami, Página/12 of Buenos Aires, Cambio16 of Spain, Centro Cervantes of Madrid, The Humanist of the American Humanist Association, Radio Uruguay, Radio Nacional de Argentina [5], Radio Exterior de España], Radio Popolare Roma, NTN 24 TV [6], Russia TV (RT), and many other daily and weekly newspapers. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the magazine Araucaria [7] in Spain.

His essays and articles have been translated into Portuguese, French, English, German, Italian, Basque, Greek, and many others. He is also the editor and translator of Ilusionistas, the latest book of Noam Chomsky in Spanish (Madrid, 2012).

He has published many books with authors like Slavoj Zizek, Eduardo Galeano, Ray Bradbury, José Saramago, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Ernesto Sábato.

In November 2019, after the coup d'état in Bolivia, Jorge Majfud called on OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro to resign from his post. The letter went viral and was supported by millions of Latin Americans.

Awards

He has distinguished himself in different international contests, for example:

• 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 Gopegui (Spain), Andrés Rivera (Argentina), Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico) and others
• Excellence in Research Award, University of Georgia, 2006
• Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Professional Activities, Jacksonville University, 2013.
• 2014 International Latino Book Awards Finalist
• 2019 Premio Letterario Internazionale Indipendente Award

See also

In Spanish: Jorge Majfud para niños In Spanish: Jorge Majfud para niños