Hebe Uhart

Hebe Uhart (2 December 1936 – 11 October 2018) was an Argentine writer. She was a contributor to newspapers and magazines, such as "El País" in Montevideo.
Her stories were adapted into the play "Querida mamá o guiando la hiedra".
She studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Later she worked as a teacher, both at primary and secondary level, and university at the UBA and the National University of Lomas de Zamora.
In 2017, she won the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award.
Uhart died in Buenos Aires on 11 October 2018 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 81.