Fabián Casas
Fabián Casas (born April 7, 1965 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine poet, writer and journalist .
Career
Fabián Casas is one of the most important representatives of the younger Argentine literature. He writes prose and poetry as well as essays. He earns his living as a sports reporter and journalist. a. for the Buenos Aires daily Clarín . He studied philosophy. At the end of the 1990s he was a member of the editorial collective of the literary magazine 18 Whiskies and published in the underground publisher Ediciones del Diego, founded by Daniel Durand . In 2004, together with the writer Washington Cucurto and the visual artists Javier Barilaro and Fernanda Laguna , he initiated the Eloísa Cartonera publishing house, a publishing house that produces books from recycled cardboard and paper.
His poems are part of various Latin American anthologies; his texts have been translated into Portuguese, English, Italian, French, German and Armenian. Poems by Fabián Casas can also be heard on lyrikline.org .
He was a guest at numerous poetry festivals in Latin America, in Chile , Peru , in 2006 at the Poetry Festival Medellín , Colombia , and in the same year at the mobile Latin American poetry festival Latinale in Berlin and Munich.
style
Casas' poems are written in a simple, laconic style, which on the one hand takes up the twists and turns and rhythm of the street language of Buenos Aires ( Lunfardo ), and on the other is based on literary models such as the New York School and the Argentine authors Joaquín Giannuzzi and Alberto Girri . The literature of the Beat Generation , as well as contemporaries such as Daniel Durand , Juan Desiderio , Washington Cucurto and Martín Gambarotta also had a recognizable influence . His poems deal with political issues such as the experience of the military dictatorship, the influence of Che Guevara , and pop cultural phenomena such as Star Wars and Pink Floyd .
Honourings and prices
- Anna Seghers Prize 2007
- The International Program of Writers from the city of Iowa, USA, 1995
- Fulbright Scholarship
Works (selection)
- Poetry
- Middle of the night. Selected poems . From the Argentine Spanish and with an afterword by Timo Berger . Edition Lux, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-939557-80-7 (luxbooks; 1).
- El hombre del overall . Bahía Blanca 2007.
- Correction. Poems . Eloísa Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2007.
- Oda . Libros de tierra firme, Buenos Aires 2003, ISBN 978-987-540045-0 .
- El whimsy de Boedo . VOX, Bahía Blanca 2003.
- El salmon . Buenos Aires 1996.
- Tuca . Buenos Aires 1990.
- prose
- Los Lemmings . Eloísa Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2005 (short stories)
- Los veterans del pánico . Eloísa Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2005.
- El bosque pulenta . Editorial Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2003.
- Ocío . Libros de tierra firme, Buenos Aires 2000, ISBN 978-950-955197-8 (novella).
- Praise for indolence followed by the panic veterans . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86789-109-7 (two stories)
literature
- Rodrigo Galarza: Los poetos interiores. Una Muestra de la nueva poesía argentina . Amargord, Madrid 2005, ISBN 978-84-873-0222-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fabián Casas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Poems by Fabián Casas to listen to
- Contribution to Germany radio about Fabián Casas
- Article about Fabián Casas in the taz
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casas, Fabián |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine journalist, poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |