Carlos Rehermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carlos Rehermann

Uruguayan writer

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1961

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: writer, architect, playwright

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Carlos Rehermann (born in Montevideo, 1961) is a Uruguayan novelist and playwright, active since 1990.
He has published four novels and staged five plays.
He writes weekly columns on the arts.
He won the Florencio Prize in 2002 for his play "A la guerra en taxi" ("To the front by cab", an Amedeo Modigliani stage biography).
Florencio-Nominated, 2006, winner, "Solos en el escenario"-Prize—Centro Cultural de España—for "Basura" ("Filth").
Premio Nacional de Letras (National Literary Prize) for "El examen" ("The examination"), based on an episode of the life of Primo Levi, 2008.
COFONTE Prize of Dramaturgy for "El examen", 2008. All his plays were staged at international Theatre Festivals (Temporales Internacionales de Teatro de Puerto Montt, Chile—2001–2005; Festival Internacional de Teatro Unipersonal, Uruguay—2006, Bienal de Teatro de Paysandú—2006). Rehermann is an architect from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay, but he's devoted to writing since 2000.
Currently Coordinator of Dramaturgy at the Ministry of Culture in Uruguay.
He's also a press (El País Cultural), radio (Radio Uruguay) and television (TV Ciudad) journalist, focused on culture, literature and art issues.