Juan Carlos Mondragón
Juan Carlos Mondragón (born 25 February 1951) is a Uruguayan writer and a literary critic. Early life and education. Mondragón was born in Montevideo. He graduated from the . Career. As a young man Mondragón worked as a teacher in Montevideo, and also wrote advertisement content. In 1984, he was awarded the Jules Supervielle prize for his essay "El arte de comparar (la estética del fracaso en Isidoro Ducasse)". He started to publish his fictional work during the eighties and his work was included in several short stories anthologies released by Trilce in Montevideo: "Cuentos de nunca acabar  (1988), Cuentos para pluma y orquesta" (1989) y "Cuentos bajo sospecha" (1989). In 1990, he received the Juan Rulfo prize special mention, for his short story "Un pequeño nocturno por Libertad Lamarque". In the mid-eighties, Mondragón traveled to Spain where he finished his doctorate in the Universities of Barcelona. He graduated as a doctor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona after writing a thesis on the theoretical works of Joaquín Torres García. He wrote a second thesis and received the title of doctor for a second time at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University – Paris III, for his research on the  fictional work of Juan Carlos Onetti : "Aporie, éclipse et transfiguration de Montevideo dans l'œuvre de Juan Carlos Onetti" (thesis defense in 1994). He was appointed academician (permanent correspondent) by the Uruguayan Academy of Arts, for his important literary production and contributions. Mondragón has lived in Paris since the nineties. He taught Latin-American literature and civilization during several years at Stendhal University in Grenoble, and om 3003 he began working as a lecturer at Lille III University.