The Letters That Never Came

Mauricio Rosencof

2000

After the war with Spain came another war. The postman, though, he stopped coming. Well, actually, he didn’t stop. What I mean is, he didn’t stop in. Papa always waited for him by the balcony, he’d be sewing in his shop, but he kept going over to the balcony to look out. And when the postman came—he’d come, but he wouldn’t stop in—Papa used to say…

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Creator Bio

Mauricio Rosencof

b. 1933

Journalist, novelist, playwright, and political activist, Mauricio Rosencof was born in Uruguay. Because of his involvement in the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, he was arrested by the military regime in 1972 and imprisoned until 1985. Rosencof lives in Montevideo, where in 2005 he became the city’s cultural director.

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