Julio Ramos

Julio Ramos is a Uruguayan author, born on October 23, 1975.

Since he was little, he was passionate about reading and, from his earliest age (he learned to read at the age of three) he read everything he could, very little of what he should and many things that he shouldn't have.

Beginning puberty, he gave himself his first foray into the other side of the writer-reader relationship. Let us lay a pious cloak of oblivion over that work, let us only concede the memory of its main characters (a green beret – trained, also as a ninja-, a ninja and another green beret).

Some years later, two events occurred that revived the spirit of writing. In one of his habitual reading orgies, he found a copy of the Universal Library of Mystery and Terror (the one with the grotesque drawings on the cover), in one of the stories "The Mystery of Mary Celeste", he read the phrase "The sails puffed up like donuts." The story was lousy, full of fancy language, overloaded, but that colloquial gem, lonely in so much pomposity, made it worth it. As a humorous story.

Julio said to himself: I can write something better than that. I'm going to write something better than that. Promise that still remains unfulfilled. The second important thing was having read "Continuity of the Parks" by Julio Cortázar. That was what marked the south and north that guided the desire to tell about him. Writing something less bad than one and as close as possible to the quality of the other.

His first story was "The Last Gift", at the age of eighteen; with it he won a contest.

That story showed him that he could write something that would please someone more than himself.

And that's north now.