Hebert Abimorad

Hebert Abimorad (born 1946 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan-born journalist, translator and poet.

Abimorad went into exile to Sweden due to the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay. He settled in Gothenburg and developed a journalist career, writing for Göteborgs-Posten and Arbetet. He also wrote poetry and translated Swedish works into Spanish.

Works
His works are:
 * In Spanish:
 * Gotemburgo, amor y destino (bilingual, 1982)
 * Gestos distantes (bilingual, 1985)
 * Voces ecos (bilingual, 1988)
 * Poemas Frugálicos (1994)
 * Poemas frugálicos 2 (1995)
 * Malena y Cíber (Ediciones Trilce, Montevideo, 1996; under the heteronym Martina Martínez)
 * Poemas Frugálicos 3 (Ediciones Trilce, Montevideo, 1998, compilation of previous writings)
 * Conversaciones y Volverá la loba... (Ediciones Trilce, Montevideo, 2000, under the heteronyms José José and Camilo Alegre)
 * Nuevos poemas frugálicos y otros textos heterónimos- Antología 1982-2007 (Baile del sol, Spain, 2008)
 * Hermatario (Botella al mar, 2011, Montevideo, under the heteronym Silvestre del Bosque)
 * Invento ad Gotemburgum (La Torre degli Arabeschi, Italy, 2001)
 * Mekong (Aedas, Montevideo, 2012, illustrations by Sandra Petrovich)
 * dios (Yaugurú, Montevideo, 2013, under the heteronym Flor de Condominio)
 * 100 poemas frugálicos (Ediciones Oblicuas, Spain, 2014)
 * Poemas y dibujos frugálicos (Yaugurú, Montevideo, 2015)
 * La Plaza ( Vitruvio, Madrid, 2018)
 * Profecías frugálicas ( Vitruvio, Madrid, 2020)
 * Frugálicas variaciones estacionales ( Madrid 2022)
 * En la plaza 33, 33 días, 33 minutos, 33 poemas frugálicos ( Montevideo, Yaugurú, 2023 )


 * In English
 * Frugal poems ( Amazon, 2023, translation by Karen Hoflin)
 * Canto planetario: hermandad en la Tierra. Volumen I (various authors, ed. Carlos Javier Jarquín). Antology. Costa Rica: H.C. Editores, 2023.


 * In Swedish
 * Korta dikter (Heterogénesis, 2000, translation by Lena E. Heyman)
 * Samtal (Libertad, Suecia, 2006, translation by Lena E. Heyman)
 * Mekong ( Styx, Suecia, 2018, translation by Maria Nääs)
 * Torget ( Styx, Suecia, translation by Siri Hultén, 2020 )
 * Frugaliska profetior (translation by Siri Hulté, 2024)
 * In French
 * Poémes frugaux-Poemas frugálicos (Fondation littéraire Fleur de Lys, Canada, 2010, translation by Marie-C Seguin)
 * In Italian
 * Nuove poesie frugali ed altri testi eteronimi ( Liberaij, Edizione privata, 2017, translation by Karen Hofling, Italia)
 * Translations
 * Barn kammare (The Children's Room) for Atelier teater, Gothemburg (1984)
 * Poesía sueca contemporánea (Baile del sol, Spain, 2011)
 * Edith Södergran, Karin Boye, un encuentro entre dos poetas suecas ( Ediciones oblicuas, 2017, Spain)
 * "Un encuentro con tres poetas suecas, Edith Södergran, Karin Boye, Agnes von Krusenstjerna (Editorial Yaugurú, Montevideo)