Fernando Sorrentino

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Fernando Sorrentino (born November 8, 1942 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer and literary professor.

Life

Fernando Sorrentino spent his childhood in Buenos Aires in the Palermo Viejo district , from which Calle Costa Rica in particular later became the foil for his literature. He completed a teaching degree in Spanish, literature and Latin at the Pedagogical College Escuela de Profesores Nº 2 "Mariano Acosta", which he graduated in 1968. In the same year he received a grant from the National Fund for the Arts. He worked as a language and literature teacher at various high schools and as a lecturer in the literature workshop at the Carlos Pellegrini Higher Commercial School at the University of Buenos Aires.

He has made a name for himself in the literary world through interviews with his compatriots Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares , but is not only an expert on the literature of his home country. In 1993 he was invited to eleven US universities, where he lectured on Argentine literature for two months.

In addition to works of fiction and articles for cultural magazines, he has published essays on Spanish and Argentinian classics such as Don Juan Manuel , Arcipreste de Hita , Juan Ruiz de Alarcón , Mariano José de Larra and José Hernández and edited several anthologies with stories by Argentinian authors.

Sorrentino worked for the literary section of the newspapers La Nación , Clarín , La Opinión , La Prensa as well as Letras de Buenos Aires and Proa. He was co-editor of the literary magazine Lucanor .

He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Argentine writers himself. His stories, which often play into the grotesque, are characterized by a mixture of inventiveness and mischievous humor, but despite all the cheerfulness they usually show a deep seriousness. In addition to more than 100 stories that have appeared in over a dozen collections, he has published several children's books as well as a novel and a short story. He has received numerous honors for his literary work. Many of his texts have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and other languages.

Fernando Sorrentino is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language . He lives in Martínez near Buenos Aires.

Works (selection)

Collections

  • La regresión zoológica. Editores Dos, Buenos Aires 1969.
  • Imperios y servidumbres. Seix Barral, Barcelona 1972; New edition: Torres Agüero, Buenos Aires 1992.
  • El mejor de los mundos posibles. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1976.
  • En defensa propia. de Belgrano, Buenos Aires 1982.
  • El rigor de las desdichas. Ediciones del Dock, Buenos Aires 1994.
  • La Corrección de los Corderos, y otros cuentos improbables. Abismo, Buenos Aires 2002.
  • Existe un hombre que tiene la costumbre de pegarme con un paraguas en la cabeza. Ediciones Carena, Barcelona 2005.
  • El regreso. Y otros cuentos inquietantes. Estrada, Buenos Aires 2005.
  • En defensa propia / El rigor de las desdichas. Los Cuadernos de Odiseo, Buenos Aires 2005.
  • Biblioteca Mínima de Opinión. Editora Opinión, Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2007.
  • Costumbres del alcaucil. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2008.
  • El crimen de san Alberto. Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires 2008.
  • El centro de la Telaraña, y otros cuentos de crimen y misterio. Editorial Longseller, Buenos Aires 2008, new edition 2014.
  • Paraguas, supersticiones y cocodrilos. Verídicas historias improbables. Instituto Literario de Veracruz, El Rinoceronte de Beatriz, Veracruz / México 2013.
  • Los reyes de la fiesta, y otros cuentos con cierto humor. Apache Libros, Madrid 2015.
  • Para defenderse de los escorpiones, y otros cuentos insólitos , Apache Libros, Madrid 2018.

Novel / short story

  • Sanitarios centenarios. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1979; heavily revised new edition: Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2000; New edition: Carena, Barcelona 2008.
  • Crónica costumbrista. Pluma Alta, Buenos Aires 1992; New edition under the title Costumbres de los muertos. Colihue, Buenos Aires 1996.

Literature for children and young people

  • Cuentos del Mentiroso. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1978; revised new edition: Grupo Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 2002; Revised new edition: Cántaro, Buenos Aires 2012.
  • El remedio para el rey ciego. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1984.
  • El Mentiroso entre guapos y compadritos. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1994.
  • La recompensa del príncipe. Stella, Buenos Aires 1995.
  • Historias de María Sapa y Fortunato. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1995; New edition: Santillana, Buenos Aires 2001.
  • El Mentiroso contra las Avispas Imperiales. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1997.
  • La venganza del muerto. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 1997.
  • El que se enoja, pierde. El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 1999.
  • Aventuras del Capitán Bancalari. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 1999.
  • Cuentos de don Jorge Sahlame. Santillana, Buenos Aires 2001.
  • El Viejo que Todo lo Sabe. Santillana, Buenos Aires 2001.
  • Burladores burlados. Crecer Creando, Buenos Aires 2006.
  • La venganza del muerto (revised new edition, contains the five stories: Historia de María Sapa; Relato de mis travesuras; La fortuna de Fortunato; Hombre de recursos; La venganza del muerto), Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2011.

Anthologies (as editor)

  • Treinta y cinco cuentos breves argentinos. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1973.
  • Treinta cuentos hispanoamericanos (1875-1975). Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1976.
  • Cuentos argentinos de imaginación. Atlántida, Buenos Aires 1974.
  • Treinta y seis cuentos argentinos con humor - siglo XX. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1976, ISBN 950-21-0431-5 .
  • Diecisiete cuentos fantásticos argentinos. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1978.
  • Nosotros contamos cuentos. Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1987.
  • Historias improbables. Antología del cuento insólito argentino. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2007.
  • Ficcionario Argentino (1840-1940). Cien años de narrativa: de Esteban Echeverría a Roberto Arlt. Losada, Buenos Aires 2012.
  • Cincuenta cuentos clásicos argentinos. De Juan María Gutiérrez and Enrique González Tuñón. Losada, Buenos Aires 2016.

Short stories (German)

  • Existe un hombre que tiene la costumbre de pegarme con un paraguas en la cabeza. 1972.
    • German: There is a man who has the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. Translated by Vera Gerling, in: Von Scorpionen und other everyday hazards, 2001. Republished in: Against infinity, AndroSF 56, p.machinery, Murnau 2017, ISBN 978-3-95765-079-5 .
  • Mera sugestión. 1976.
    • German: Pure imagination. Translated by Vera Gerling, in: Fantasia 214/214, edfc, Passau 2008, ISBN 978-3-939914-03-7 .
  • Supersticiones retributivas. 1982.
    • German: Profitable superstition. Translated by Marion Kaufmann, in: Fantasia 586 (eBook), edfc, Passau 2016.
  • Costumbres del alcaucil. 1995.
    • German: The peculiarities of the artichokes. translated by Marion Kaufmann, in: Am Erker. Journal for Literature, No. 49, Münster 2004, ISSN  0721-0493 . Newly published in: Fantasia 202/203, edfc, Passau 2006, ISBN 3-932621-93-X .
  • Por culpa del doctor Moreau. 2005.
  • La albufera de Cubelli. 2008.
    • German: The Cubelli lagoon. Translated by Marion Kaufmann, in: Fantasia 586 (eBook), edfc, Passau 2016. Republished in: Against infinite 15, AndroSF 109, p.machinery, Winnert 2019, ISBN 978-3-95765-172-3 .

Single title (German)

Essays

  • El forajido sentimental. Incursiones por los escritos de Jorge Luis Borges. Losada, Buenos Aires 2011.

Interviews

  • Siete conversaciones with Jorge Luis Borges, Casa Pardo, Buenos Aires 1974; New edition (with updated notes): El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 1996; New edition: El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 2001; New edition: Losada, Buenos Aires 2007.
  • Siete conversaciones with Adolfo Bioy Casares, Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1992; New edition: El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 2001; New edition: Losada, Buenos Aires 2007.
  • Conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges, Losada, Buenos Aires 2017. Selection of the positions of Borges, sorted into nine categories: "Geografías", "Astucias literarias", "Tango", "Política", "Colegas argentinos", "Deportes", " Escritores españoles ”,“ Dante Alighieri ”and“ Trabajos y bibliotecas ”. Hardcover, richly illustrated by Hugo Alberto Díaz ("HUADI") with color caricatures throughout

Honors

  • Primer Premio de Cuentos, awarded by Testigo magazine . 1970
  • Segundo Premio Municipal de Literatura, awarded for El mejor de los mundos posibles. 1976
  • Faja de honor de la SADE (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores), for Cuentos del Mentiroso. 1978
  • Primer Premio de Cuentos, awarded by the Arcano Foundation. 1994
  • Premio Konex, Literatura de Humor, awarded by the Konex Foundation. 1994
  • Segundo Premio Municipal de Literatura, for El rigor de las desdichas. 1994
  • Premio Fantasía Infantil, for Historias de María Sapa y Fortunato. 1996
  • Premio Eduardo Mallea, for the unpublished manuscript of the novel Un estilo de vida. 1995-1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucanor. Revista de narrativa , ed. by Juan José Delaney and Fernando Sorrentino, Buenos Aires 1986/1987.
  2. ↑ Interview with Fernando Sorrentino, August 18, 2001 (PDF, German)
  3. ↑ Review on derstandard.at, June 13, 2017
  4. ↑ a b For the two collections available in German translation, stories from different original collections were put together.
  5. ↑ Apokalyptische Zoologie , FAZ online, February 8, 2002
  6. ↑ Review on perlentaucher.de
  7. ↑ Author's reading: Fernando Sorrentino in the house of the University of Düsseldorf, April 14, 2014
  8. ↑ Premio Konex 1994: Literatura de Humor (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Sorrentino, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian literary professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo