Félix Bruzzone

Félix Bruzzone (* 1976 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer.

life and work

Félix Bruzzone studied at the University of his hometown of Literature and was temporarily working as a primary school teacher.

Bruzzone was named one of the top ten authors of the past decade by the daily Clarín . His volume of short stories, published in 2007, is entitled 76 , and his first novel Los Topos was published one year ago . In his works, Bruzzone deals intensively with the Argentine military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s and the victims of this era. Bruzzone's parents are also among the so-called " disappeared " - his father was arrested three months before his birth, his mother abducted a few months later - whose further fate has remained unclear to this day. Bruzzone grew up with his grandmother.

Félix Bruzzone now lives in Buenos Aires, where he and Hernán Vanoli run the small, independent publisher Editorial Tamarisco.

Works (selection)

• Los topos. Editorial Mondadori, Buenos Aires 2008, ISBN 978-987-658000-7
• Unimog. In: Timo Berger and Rike Bolte (eds.): Asado Verbal. Young Argentine literature. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-2634-4
• 76 . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937834-39-9

Awards

• 2010 Anna Seghers Prize , together with Andreas Schäfer

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Bruzzone in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Félix Bruzzone at perlentaucher.de
• Editorial Tamarisco blog (Spanish)
• Brief portrait on the website of Botenstoffe - Argentine-German Writers' Conference (Spanish / English )
• In search of history , portrait on Deutschlandradio Kultur on February 7, 2011