Jesús Urzagasti

Jesús Urzagasti (1941–2013) was a Bolivian poet and novelist. He worked as a journalist for the now-defunct Catholic paper Presencia from 1972 until the 1990s, where he served as editor of the supplement "Presencia Literaria" (1992) among other sections.^[1]

His 1969 novel Tirinea is considered by critics to be one of the best Bolivian novels.

Selected poetry

• Cuadernos de Lilino (1972)
• Yerubia (1978)
• The Hill of the Blue Sea (1993)

Selected prose

• Tirinea (1969)
• In the Country of Silence (1987; 2007)
• From the Window to the Park (1992)
• The Weavers of the Night (1996)
• A Summer with Marina Sangabriel (2001)
• The Tree of the Tribe (2004)

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