Daniel Chavarría

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Daniel Chavarría

Daniel Chavarría , full name Daniel Edmundo Chavarría Bastélica , (born November 23, 1933 in San José , Uruguay , † April 6, 2018 in Havana ) was a Uruguayan writer , translator and lecturer.

At the University of Havana , Chavarría was a lecturer in Latin, Greek and classical literature from 1975 to 1986. He also worked as a literary translator for the Instituto Cubano del Libro . Chavarría, who lived in Havana from 1969 , has written numerous novels, stories and scripts for film and television, among other things. Many of his books, in which he placed a focus on crime novels, but also including historical novels, have been translated into a variety of other languages ​​and have appeared in Uruguay, Germany, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Italy and France, for example , Greece and Russia as new editions.

Chavarría, a member of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), has received numerous awards for his work. The prizes awarded to him included the Premio Aniversario de la Revolución awarded by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (Minint) , but also the Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture and the Premio Daniell Hammett . In 2002 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award . For his screenplay for the film Plaf , which was created in collaboration with director JCTabío , he received the Premio Coral at the Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in 1988 and the Gran Premio de Largometrajes at the New York Latino Festival the following year . In 2010 he was awarded the Cuban National Prize for Literature .

Publications (excerpt)

  • 1977: Joy , Roman (German: Operation "Joy" , New Life, Berlin 1984)
  • 1979: Complejo Camagüey , together with Justo E. Vasco
  • 1984: La sexta isla (German: The sixth island , New Life, Berlin 1989)
  • 1984: Primero muerto , together with Justo E. Vasco
  • 1986: La frontera del deber , together with G. Rodríguez Rivera
  • 1991: Allá ellos (German: Die Wunderdroge , Heyne, Munich 1996)
  • 1992: Contracandela , together with Justo E. Vasco
  • 1993: El ojo de Cibeles
  • 1995: Adiós muchachos , Roman (German: Die Radfahrerin , Diana-Verlag, Munich 2000)
  • 1998: Aquel año en Madrid (German: Jenes Jahr in Madrid, Edition Cologne 2005)
  • 2000: El rojo en la pluma del loro (German: The red in the plumage of the parrot , Edition Cologne 2009)
  • 2004: Viudas de sangre
  • 2005: Príapos (German: Viagra à la cubana , Edition Cologne 2009)
  • 2006: Una pica en flandes
  • 2009: Y el mundo sigue andando (Memorias)

Awards (excerpt)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Chavarría, un cubano nacido en Uruguay. In: Juventud Rebelde . April 6, 2018, Retrieved April 7, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Short biography (Spanish) on cubaliteraria.cu, accessed on March 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.ila-bonn.de, accessed on May 18, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ila-bonn.de
personal data
SURNAME Chavarría, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chavarría Bastélica, Daniel Edmundo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer, translator and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2018
Place of death Havana , Cuba