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Nicasio Urbina is a Nicaraguan writer, critic and professor. He was born in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958, to Nicaraguan parents. He lived his
childhood in Caracas and his adolescence in Nicaragua. Later he lived in
Belgium, France, England, and Spain, and studied at the Université Catolique
de Louvain and the Universidad Central de Barcelona. He received his B.A.
and his M.S. from Florida International University, and his Ph.D. from
Georgetown University. Currently he is Director of Latin American Studies,
and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
He has
published several books: El libro de las palabras enajenadas (1991)
and El ojo el cielo perdido (1999) short stories. La
significación del género: estudio semiótico de las novelas y ensayos de
Ernesto Sábato (1992) and La estructura de la novela nicaragüense:
análisis narratológico (1996) literary criticism.
Sintaxis de
un signo (1995) poetry. His latest book is an edited collection of
essays entitled Miradas críticas sobre Rubén Darío (2005). Urbina was
Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United Nation from 1996 to 1998. |
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