Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León
Napoleón Baccino | |
|---|---|
| Born | Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León 1947 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | writer |
| Awards | Fraternity Award Casa de las Américas Prize |
Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León (born Montevideo, 1947) is an Uruguayan writer. He is best known for his historical novel Maluco. La Novela de Los Descubridores, a fictional account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world.[1] The book won the Premio Casa de las Américas in 1989[2] and the Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima Prize for Published Work in 1990.[3] It was later translated into English by Nick Caistor[4] and into French by Nelly Lhermillier.[5]
In 2000, he published a non-fiction work, Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo 1867-2000 , a bilingual study of the history of the economy in the Río de la Plata.[6]
References
- ^ "Maluco, la novela que hizo famoso a Baccino" (in Spanish). 17 June 2016.
- ^ "Libro Maluco, la novela de los descubridores narra la expedición marítima de dos grandes navegantes peninsulares y su tripulación". Prensa Librerías del Sur (in Spanish).
- ^ "Maluco, la novela de los descubridores". Bookshop.org.
- ^ "Con el traductor Nick Caistor" (in Spanish). 17 June 2016.
- ^ Bio
- ^ "FINANZAS Y CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO EN LA "SUIZA DE AMÉRICA": LA BOLSA DE MONTEVIDEO, 1875-1945" (PDF). Universidad de Valladolid (in Spanish).