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Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo

literary awards in Uruguay

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16621642 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo (English: Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize) are the most important literary awards in Uruguay.

Established in 1988, they are named after Bartolomé Hidalgo, one of the founders of Gaucho literature.

Editorial summary

“Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo” enters the record as literary awards in Uruguay. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Premio, Bartolomé and Hidalgo can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Premio, Bartolomé and Hidalgo.
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Why this record matters

“Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Premio, Bartolomé and Hidalgo provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16621642. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.