Homero Alsina Thevenet
Homero Alsina Thevenet (1922–2005) was a journalist and film critic of Uruguay. He was born on 6 August 1922 and died on December 2005. Biography. He began his career as a film critic at the age of 15 in the Uruguayan magazine "Cine Radio Actualidad" by René Arturo Despouey, whom he always considered his teacher. He made film reviews Along with Hugo Alfaro for seven years for the weekly "Marcha". In 1954 he began working on the entertainment page of the newspaper "El País". Between 1965 and 1976 he worked in Buenos Aires in the magazine "Primera  Plana" and in the "April" publishing house. After the military coup of 1976 in Argentina he went into exile in Barcelona. In 1984 he returned to Argentina where he was Head of Shows for the newspaper "La Razón" and then for Página 12. In 1989, he returned to Montevideo where he founded El País Cultural, the cultural weekly of the newspaper "El País"; he was its director for 17 years until his death. He is considered a master of film criticism. He published works on the history of silent movies, the Hollywood blacklist, film censorship, and the actor Charles Chaplin . Together with Emir Rodríguez Monegal he wrote the first book written outside of Sweden about the director Ingmar Bergman. Not all his work was directed towards the cinema, he also wrote, compiled and increased an encyclopedia on useless data in which he included a large collection of rare and interesting data, presented in a sarcastic tone and with black humor towards the society of the end of the 1980s. Award. In 2002, he was awarded the Cóndor de Plata Prize for his trajectory awarded by the Association of Cinematographic Chroniclers of Argentina. Alsina was awarded the Legion Book Prize awarded  by the Uruguayan Chamber of Books.