| Leo Maslíah | |
| Birth Date: | 26 July 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation: | musician, humorist and writer |
| Website: | Leo Maslíah |
Leo Maslíah (born 1954) is a Uruguayan musician, humorist and writer.
Born in 1954 in Montevideo, he started writing and composing in 1978, usually with a touch of humour.
After a considerable success in the Uruguayan underground movement, he successfully disembarked in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. He slowly gained popularity, had concerts in Chile, Peru, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Spain among others.
His music resists classification. It results from an original mix of personal experiments, popular music, classical composition - including electroacoustic materials - and jazz. He often bases his pieces on the minimalistic repetition of short elements. His lyrics include frequent puns. Overall, his production adopts a tone both ironic and critical, always intelligent and witty, sometimes nihilistic. He recorded more than 40 albums, most of them released in Uruguay and Argentina. In 2003 his opera "Maldoror" was performed in the Teatro Colón.
He also wrote over 40 books with novels, short stories and plays. 10 of his plays were taken to theater. The Konex Foundation of Argentina awarded him "Merit for humour in literature" in 1994.
He was born on July 26, 1954, in Montevideo. He studied piano with Bertha Chadicov and Wilser Rossi, harmony with Nydia Pereyra Lisaso, organ with Manuel Salsamendi, and composition with Coriún Aharonián and Graciela Paraskevaídis. He appeared for the first time in public in 1974 as an organ soloist performing a Haendel concerto. As of 1978 he develops an intense activity as author and performer of popular music, having performed in many countries of South America and Europe.
In 1981 his electroacoustic composition "Llanto" was included in the programming of the annual festival of the International Society of Contemporary Music (SIMC) held in Brussels, Belgium. Uruguayan orchestras perform several of his symphonic works. His chamber works are part of the repertoire of some national and foreign performers. In 1994 he was distinguished by the Konex Foundation of Argentina among the hundred best figures of Argentine letters of the decade 1984–1994.
In June 2003, his opera Maldoror, based on the book Los cantos de Maldoror by the Count of Lautréamont (the famous French poet Isidore Ducasse born in Uruguay), was premiered (and several performances were performed) at the Teatro Colón in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1998 he received the Morosoli Award in recognition of his career in popular music, and in 2012 the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture's annual music award in the jazz/fusion/Latin category for his composition "Algo Ritmo" .
As a composer and performer of music of the so-called "cult" genre, he participated in concerts and recordings of contemporary music from Uruguay, Argentina and other countries. He also edited, as a soloist, more than 40 record works. Trees won in 2008, in Argentina, the Gardel Award for the best instrumental album and Leo Maslíah plays Bach in 2020 the award for the best classical music album. Leo Maslíah also published nearly 40 books, including novels, collections of short stories and plays. In 2019 he was the winner of the National Literature Awards with his work Literature with fences.
Several of his plays were premiered in Montevideo and/or Buenos Aires with staging by the author or other directors. His works Telecomedia and El mouse were awarded the prize of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, in the "comedy" category, in 2000 and 2013.
| Año | Título | ISBN | Editorial | Otros | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Hospital especial | Imago | Montevideo poemas y letras de canciones | ||
| 1984 | Un detective privado ante algunos problemas no del todo ajenos a la llamada "música popular" | cuadernos del TAMP Rosario, Argentina relato | |||
| 1985 | Historia transversal de Floreal Menéndez | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina 2.ª edición: 1992 novela | ||
| 1987 | El show de José Fin | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina; 2.ª edición: 1992 novela | ||
| 1987 | Teléfonos públicos | Monte Sexto | Montevideo cuentos | ||
| Tres obras de teatro | Ediciones de Uno | Yoea, Montevideo teatro | |||
| 1989 | El lado oscuro de la pelvis | 950-515-035-0 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina, 2.ª edición: 1992 novela | |
| 1990 | La tortuga | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina; 2.ª edición: 1992 cuentos | ||
| 1991 | Tarjeta roja | 950-515-122-5 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 1991 | Zanahorias | 9974-32-001-1 | Ediciones Trilce | Montevideo novela | |
| 1991 | Pastor de cabras perfectas | Senda | Bahía Blanca, Argentina poesía | ||
| 1992 | La mujer loba ataca de nuevo | 9789871489169 | Yoea | Montevideorelatos | |
| 1992 | El animal que todos llevamos dentro | 950-515-126-8 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 1993 | El triple salto mortal | 950-515-130-6 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 1993 | Mentirillas | 9505155743 | Arca | Montevideo novela | |
| 1994 | El gentilhombre | Yoea | Montevideo relatos | ||
| 1994 | La miopía de Rodríguez | 950-515-138-1 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 1994 | La extraordinaria aventura de Arthur Gordon Pam | Yoea | Montevideo relatos | ||
| 1995 | La décima pista | 950-515-145-4 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 1996 | La buena noticia | 950-515-153-5 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 1997 | Ositos | 950-515-159-4 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 1997 | Signos | Aymara | Montevideo novela | ||
| 1998 | No juegues con fuego porque lo podés apagar | 9505155638 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina | |
| 1999 | Líneas | 9505151721 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 2000 | Carta a un escritor latinoamericano y otros insultos | 950-515-178-0 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 2001 | Telecomedia y otras teatreces | 9505151845 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina | |
| 2002 | Servicio de Habitación | 9505155700 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 2002 | Estatutos | 9974766095 | Cauce Editorial | Montevideo novela | |
| 2003 | Horóscopos y otras sentencias | 9505151888 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina cuentos | |
| 2004 | Libretos | 950-515-193-4 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novela | |
| 2005 | Mentirillas seguido de El Lado Oscuro de la Pelvis | 950-515-574-3 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina novelas | |
| 2005 | No juegues con fuego porque lo podés apagar | 950-515-563-8 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina reedición | |
| 2005 | El oráculo | 9974-7805-3-5 | Perro andaluz ediciones | Coescrito con Sanopi. Uruguay cuentos ilustrados. | |
| 2006 | Tres idiotas en busca de una imbécil y otras piezas | 9505154380 | Ediciones de la Flor | Argentina teatro | |
| 2008 | Cuentos impensados | 978-9974-96-476-1 | Menosata | Uruguay cuentos | |
| 2010 | La mujer loba ataca de nuevo | 9789871489169 | Ediciones Godot | Argentina cuentos | |
| 2010 | El crucero Yarará | 9789871489190 | Ediciones Godot | Argentina novela | |
| 2011 | Cuentos de Pompeyo | 978-987-1489-26-8 | Ediciones Godot | Argentina cuentos | |
| 2012 | Fábulas, parábolas y paradojas | 978-9974-8313-7-7 | Criatura Editora | Uruguay cuentos | |
| 2013 | Así las cosas | 978-9974-99-038-8 | Menosata | Uruguay poesía | |
| 2013 | Diccionario privado | 978-9974-8360-7-5 | Criatura editora | Uruguay diccionario | |
| 2014 | Sagrado Colegio | 978-9974-8452-7-5 | Criatura Editora | Uruguay novela | |
| 2014 | Crucigramas | 978-9974-8361-2-9 | Perro andaluz ediciones | Coescrito con Sanopi. Uruguay cuentos ilustrados. | |
| 2014 | El último dictador y la primera dama / El ratón | 978-9974-8419-7-0 | Criatura editora | Uruguay teatro | |
| 2015 | El bobo del pueblo y otras incorrecciones | 978-9974-8503-9-2 | Criatura editora | Uruguay cuentos | |
| 2017 | Literatura con vallas | Criatura Editorial | Uruguay cuentos |