Edda Fabbri

Edda Fabbri (born 1949 Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer. She was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for her testimonial novel Oblivion, which narrates her experiences as a political prisoner of the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay.

Edda Fabbri
Born1949  (age 72)
Montevideo 
Awards

Life

Her interest in leftist movements began at an early age, when she studied the speeches of Fidel Castro. Later, during the 60s and 70s, she studied at the Faculty of Medicine where he joined the student movement.

In 1971, she joined the Tupamaros National Liberation Movement.[1] A few months later, she was imprisoned in a jail in Montevideo, where they took the prisoners of common crimes. A month later, she managed to escape through pipes and tunnels with the help of her colleagues who planned the escape from the outside. After nine months of freedom, in 1972 she was imprisoned again in Punta de Rieles where she was held for the next 13 years. In February 1985, she was released from jail along with another group of political prisoners. At this time, she had a daughter named Rosario with her partner. Later, her second son, Pedro, was born.[2]

Her first book, Oblivion, won the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize for testimonial literature in 2007. Other stories by her, have been included in Memorias para armar II (2000) and Exilios y tangueces (2009).[3]

Currently, she works for various periodicals and since 2000 she has collaborated in the Semanario Brecha.

Works
  • Oblivion Montevideo : Letraeñe Ediciones, 2007. ISBN 9789974826793, OCLC 843443256[2][4]
  • Cometa en Montevideo (2007)
  • Fabular un país, testimoniar una literatura (2013)

References
  1. Daisy Rubiera Castillo (19 September 2008). "La memoria no es lo que pasó, son sus huellas". Rebelión. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. "Presentaron libro de Edda Fabbri". La Red 21 (in Spanish). 28 May 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. "Edda Fabbri". La Jiribilla (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. Ripa, Valentina (9 May 2014). "Edda Fabbri, ex prigioniera della dittatura uruguaiana, a Napoli sabato 17 maggio 2014". Peacelink (in Italian). Retrieved 4 December 2020.

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