Lalo BARRUBIA, Uruguay/Sweden

Lalo Barrubia, Sweden/Uruguay

Born in 1967 in Montevideo, lives and works in Malmö.

Lalo Barrubia is an author and performamce artist who focus on action poetry. She has also published several books of her poemts and is represented in anthologies and literary magazines. She has published novels and and stories with a narrative of the generation that grew up in the authoritarian 1970s’, with its multiple economical crises, being forced to an adult life without any references or role models. Her latest novel Pegame que me gusta was awarded the third prize of the Premios Anuales de Literatura 2011 by the Ministry of Culture of  Uruguay.