ArticleAuthors: Stephen Gregory (1997)
Carlos Maggi, born in 1922, is one of Uruguay's most prominent intellec-tual figures. Though trained as a lawyer, his writing career has been his main interest. While still a student at pre-university level, he wrote (with Manuel Flores Mora, who was to be a Colorado senator, ajournalist of note and one of Maggi's life-long friends and colleagues) a prize-winning historical essayl and followed this by founding in 1942 a short-lived review, Apex, Latin Americanist in ideology and avantgardist in its aesthetics. He worked extensively as both writer and editor on Acci6n, a newspaper put out by the militantly pro-Batllista faction2 of the Colorado party3,just as much later he would collab... 
