Ernesto Mallo

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Ernesto Mallo (born August 16, 1948 in La Plata ) is an Argentine writer , screenwriter and journalist . Two of his books have so far been translated into German, French and English. After a few short stories, he wrote his first crime novel, Der Tote von der Plaza Once, in 2006, with which he created the character of Comisario Lascano, who then became the focus of further books. The books with Comisario Lascano are set in the time of the military dictatorship or shortly afterwards.

Mallo on the first of his Comisarion Lascano novels: “Many consider this story to be a political novel, a detective novel, but I wanted to write a novel about madness, about its logic that encompasses everyone, the guerrillas, like the perpetrators or the Commissioner speaking to his dead wife. "

Life

During the times of the Argentine military dictatorship under General Videla, Mallo was a member of the Argentine Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias , named after the armed forces of socialist Cuba and lived as an active opponent and persecuted of the military dictatorship in the underground. Mallo lives and works in Buenos Aires . He has been married several times and has six children.

Works

Plays

  • La vacuna (1973)
  • Siete Cuadros (1977)
  • Qué mambo el de Colón (1982)

Scripts

  • La aguja en el pajar (2003)
  • Maidana con todo (2007) (in collaboration with Juan Desanzo)
  • Delincuente Argentina (2007)

Short story

  • Bautizo y otros cuentos (Eudeba, 1974)

Novels

  • La aguja en el pajar . Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2006. German edition: Der Tote von der Plaza Once , Aufbau Verlag , Berlín 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-03300-2 .
  • Delincuente argentino . Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2007. German edition: The barefoot policeman from Calle San Martín . Structure Verlag, Berlín 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-03325-5
  • El Relicario . Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2010.

Awards

The Dead from Plaza Once was recognized as the best crime novel at the Semana Negra in Gijón , the largest festival for crime literature, and received the Clarín Literature Prize.

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  1. ↑ http://www.comprendes.de/magazin/lesetipp/buchempfänger/daten/2010/12/27/der-barfuessige-polizist-von-der-calle-san-martin/
  2. ↑ http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/ernesto-mallo.html krimi-couch.de
  3. ↑ http://www.k-libre.fr/klibre-ve/index.php?page=auteur&id=800
  4. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Ernesto-Mallo/e/B0045A9MDW
  5. ↑ http://hallo-buch.de/mallo-toteplazaonce.html
personal data
SURNAME Mallo, Ernesto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH La Plata