Manuel Arturo Claps (Buenos Aires, June 7, 1920 â Montevideo, May 23, 1999) was an Argentine-Uruguayan writer.
Born in Argentina, due to political reasons his family had to go in exile; they settled in Montevideo, where afterwards Claps joined the Generation of 45, a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Carlos Maggi, ÃÂngel Rama, Emir RodrÃÂguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos MartÃÂnez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro DÃÂaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, LÃÂber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.