Felisberto Hernández

Felisberto Hernández was born on 20 October 1902 in Montevideo, into a poor family. A pianist partly self-taught, he played in cinemas in the silent era, then gave concerts. Between 1925 and 1931 he published four small collections, which went almost unnoticed. He stayed in Paris from October 1946 to May 1948 and in February 1949 married in Montevideo María Luisa de las Heras, a seamstress he had met in France. More admired by writers than by the public, he died in Montevideo on 13 January 1964.

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