{{Short description|Uruguayan artist, journalist, and lawyer (1922–2015)}} {{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Carlos Maggi|date=November 2012}} {{Infobox person |image = |caption = |birth_name = Carlos Alberto Maggi Cleffi |birth_date = 5 August 1922 |birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay |death_date = 15 May 2015 (aged 92) |death_place = Montevideo, Uruguay |occupation = lawyer, playwright, journalist, writer |alma_mater = Universidad de Navarra |website = https://www.diegofischer.com.uy |awards = Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo |signature = |spouse = María Inés Silva Vila }}
'''Carlos Maggi''' (5 August 1922, Montevideo, Uruguay – 15 May 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Uruguayan lawyer, playwright, journalist and writer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Falleció Carlos Maggi|url=http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?271198|accessdate=16 May 2015|agency=montevideo.com|date=15 May 2015}}</ref> Among his acquaintances he was known as "the Kid" ({{langx|es|el Pibe}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://brecha.com.uy/los-cien-anos-del-pibe/ |title=Los cien años del Pibe |date=5 August 2022 |accessdate=5 August 2022 |website=Brecha |last=Torres |first=Alicia |language=es }}</ref>
He was one of the last surviving members of the ''Generation of 45'', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Juan Carlos Onetti, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, {{Interlanguage link multi|Carlos Martínez Moreno|es}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Mario Arregui|es}}, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, {{Interlanguage link multi|Tola Invernizzi|es|3=José Luis Invernizzi}}, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, {{Interlanguage link multi|Juan Cunha|es}}, among others.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/Suple/EntrevistasDeDicandia/03/05/24/dicandia_42137.asp |title=Generación del 45: severa en la crítica y brillante en la creación. |access-date=2012-12-17 |archive-date=2012-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922000448/http://www.elpais.com.uy/Suple/EntrevistasDeDicandia/03/05/24/dicandia_42137.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Works == * ''Il Duce'' (2013), opera libretto, with Mauricio Rosencof, music by Federico García Vigil<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/267493/el-eterno-retorno-del-dictador/ |title = El eterno retorno del dictador |date = 16 December 2013 |publisher = El Observador |access-date = 2015-05-22 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216190928/http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/267493/el-eterno-retorno-del-dictador/# |archive-date = 2013-12-16 |url-status = dead }}</ref> * ''1611-2011 Mutaciones y aggiornamientos en la economía y cultura del Uruguay'' (2011) * ''Artigas revelado'' (2009), with Leonardo Borges * ''La nueva historia de Artigas'' (2005), 8 volumes * ''El fin de la discusión'' (2002) * ''La guerra de Baltar'' (2001) * ''Artigas y el lejano norte'' (1999) * ''Esperando a Rodó'' (1998) * ''Los uruguayos y la bicicleta'' (1995) * ''La reforma inevitable'' (1994) * ''Amor y boda de Jorge con Giorgina'' (1992) * ''Con el uno, Ladislao'' (1992) * ''El Uruguay de la tabla rasa'' (1992) * ''Artigas y su hijo el Caciquillo'' (1991) * ''La hija de Gorbachov'' (1991) * ''El Urucray y sus ondas'' (1991) * ''Crispín amores Artigas'' (1990) * ''Un cuervo en la madrugada'' (1989) * ''Los militares, la televisión y otras razones de uso interno'' (1986) * ''El patio de la torcaza'' (1986) * ''Frutos'' (1985) * ''Para siempre y un día'' (1978) * ''Un motivo y Rancho en la noche'' (1973), on texts by {{Interlanguage link multi|Francisco Espínola|es}} * ''Nueva York A.P.: La muerte de un viajante'' (1973), about ''Death of a Salesman'' by Arthur Miller * ''El baile del cangrejo'' (1971) * ''Un motivo'' (1968) * ''El patio de la torcaza'' (1967) * ''Noticias de la aventura del hombre'' (1966) * ''El pianista y el amor (con otros)'' (1965) * ''El Uruguay y su gente'' (1963) * ''La gran viuda'' (1961) * ''La noche de los ángeles inciertos''(1960) * ''El apuntador'' (1959) * ''La biblioteca'' (1959) * ''Caracol, col, col'' (1959), con otros * ''La trastienda'' (1958) * ''Polvo enamorado'' (1951) * ''José Artigas, primer estadista de la revolución'' (1942), with Manuel Flores Mora; in 1941 it obtained an award from the University of the Republic
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==External links== *[http://www.archivodeprensa.edu.uy/biblioteca/carlos_real_de_azua/textos/bibliografia/carlosmaggi.pdf Carlos Maggi, según Carlos Real de Arzúa - ''ANTOLOGÍA DEL ENSAYO URUGUAYO CONTEMPORÁNEO'', Tomo II. pp. 569-570, 1964]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://www.archivodeprensa.edu.uy/biblioteca/emir_rodriguez_monegal/bibliografia/prensa/artpren/temas/temas_07.htm ''"Retrato de un Best-seller: Carlos Maggi"'' - En Temas, nº 7, junio-julio 1966, por Emir Rodríguez Monegal] *[http://www.vivencias.com.uy/2012/05/entrevista-carlos-maggi.html ''"Entrevista a Carlos Maggi"'' - En Vivencias, mayo 2012, por Andrea Calvete] *[http://brecha.com.uy/trazos-de-historia-oculta-en-la-trastienda/ In memoriam Carlos Maggi] *[https://www.loc.gov/item/93842455/ Carlos Maggi recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive in 1977]
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