Leopoldo Brizuela

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Leopoldo Brizuela (2010)

Leopoldo Brizuela (born June 8, 1963 in La Plata , Buenos Aires Province ; died May 14, 2019 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

Brizuela began studying literature at the Universidad de La Plata and made music with the folk singer Leda Valladares . In 1985 he received the “Premio Fortabat de Novela” for his first novel. He was poet in residence at the Banff Center For the Arts in Canada and took a course in the United States on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa . The "Fundación Gulbenkian de Lisboa" granted him a scholarship for a stay in Portugal. In 1999 he was awarded the Argentine Prize for Literature Premio Clarin . In 2012 he received the Alfaguara Literature Prize in Spain for the novel Una misma noche .

Brizuela has translated works by Henry James , Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty into Spanish.

The Argentine succumbed to cancer, which is why he had only worked from home for a long time.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tejiendo agua, novela , Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1985
  • Cantoras, reportajes a Gerónima Sequeida y Leda Valladares ; Torres Agüero Editor, Buenos Aires, 1987
  • Cantar la vida, conversaciones con las cantantes Mercedes Sosa , Aimé Paine, Teresa Parodi , Leda Valladares y Gerónima Sequeida ; El Ateneo, Buenos Aires, 1992
  • Fado, poemas , La Marca, Buenos Aires, 1995
  • Inglaterra. Una fábula, novela , Alfaguara, 1999
    • Inglaterra , from the Argentine span. by Christian Hansen, Berlin-Verl., Berlin 2004, ISBN 9783827000781 .
  • El placer de la cautiva, nouvelle , 2001
  • Los que llegamos más lejos, relatos , Alfaguara, Buenos Aires, 2002
  • Lisboa. Un melodrama, novela , Alianza, 2010
    • Night over Lisbon , from the span. by Thomas Brovot, Insel-Verl., Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783458174783 .
  • Una misma noche, novela , Alfaguara, 2012

Web links

Commons : Leopoldo Brizuela  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murió el escritor argentino Leopoldo Brizuela. May 14, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Banff Center
  3. ^ El escritor argentino Leopoldo Brizuela ha logrado el Premio Alfaguara ABC , March 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Brizuela, Leopoldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH La Plata (city)
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2019
Place of death Buenos Aires