Poet, translator, essayist and literary critic, Ida Vitale was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied Law and Humanities and was a disciple of Jose Bergamin. With the appearance of his first book, "Light of the Memory" (1949), became one of the central figures of the group poetic writers of his country, Rodriguez Monegal called "Generation of '45". During the fifties, sixties and early seventies published books of poetry, criticism and translations of poetry, theater and narrative texts, and collaborated in important magazines of Uruguay and Latin America. Between 1974 and 1984 he lived in exile in Mexico, where he wrote regularly in newspapers and magazines: Excelsior, El Sol de Mexico, Unomasuno, Plural, Back (now does in Letras Libres). Since 1989 lives between the cities of Austin, Mexico and Montevideo. His work, which has won several awards in Uruguay (National and Municipal Awards Poetry Awards Theatrical Translations) and in Mexico (International Prize Octavio Paz Poetry and Essay) has been published in Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Colombia, England and the United States. Recent books: Reason Enough, bilingual edition (Austin, Host Publications, 2007), Section fifth (Malaga, Cultural Center Generation 27, 2009), Garden of Silica (London, Salt Publishing, 2010) Thirty-six poems (Bogota National University of Colombia, 2010).