Rosario Lazaro Igoa

Rosario Lázaro Igoa is a writer, literary translator, and translation studies scholar from Uruguay based on Bidjigal and Gadigal land. She is the author of the novel Mayito (2006), and the short story collections Peces mudos (2016) and Cráteres artificiales (2021), the latter of which received second place in Uruguay’s National Literature Prize. She also published the essay collection Hasta el sol y todas las ciudades en el medio (2024), followed by Atlántico Sur (2025). Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines in several languages. Rosario edited and translated Brazilian modernist Mário de Andrade’s Crónicas de melancolía eufórica (2016), as well as numerous other books from Portuguese and English into Spanish. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies.