Mario Szichman

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Mario Szichman (born January 2, 1945 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † June 29, 2018 in New York City ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

Mario Szichman was born as a descendant of a Jewish immigrant family in Buenos Aires, studied law there and went first to Colombia in 1967 , then to Venezuela , where he wrote his first novel Crónica falsa . Between 1971 and 1975 Szichman worked again in Argentina, but then had to emigrate again due to the increasingly dangerous political situation. He worked as a journalist and then went to New York, where he lived to the end.

Honourings and prices

  • Recognition award at the Premio Casa de las Américas (Havana) 1969 for Crónica falsa
  • Premio Norte 1980 for A las 20:25, la Señora entró en la inmortalidad

Works

Novels

  • Crónica falsa . Buenos Aires: Jorge Álvarez, 1969
  • Los judíos del Mar Dulce . Buenos Aires / Caracas: Ed. Galerna / Síntesis 2000, 1971 (extended new edition: New Jersey: Editorial Aleph, 2013)
  • La verdadera crónica falsa . Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1972
  • A las 20:25, la Señora entró en la inmortalidad . Hanover: NH: Ed. del Norte, 1981 (New Jersey: Editorial Aleph, 2012)
  • Los papeles de Miranda . Caracas: José Agustín Catalá / El Centauro Ediciones, 2000
  • Las dos muertes del General Simón Bolívar . Caracas: José Agustín Catalá / El Centauro Ediciones, 2004
  • Los años de la Guerra a muerte . Caracas: José Agustín Catalá / El Centauro Ediciones, 2007
  • Eros y la doncella . Madrid: Verbum, 2013
  • La región vacía . Madrid: Verbum, 2014

Translations

German

  • "At 8:25 p.m. Evita entered eternity", in: With eyes in hand: Argentine Jews tell stories . Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2014, pages 74–80

English

  • At 8:25 am Evita Became Immortal . Transl. by Roberto Picciotto. Hanover, NH: Ed. del Norte, 1983

literature

  • Telaak, Anastasia: Body, language, tradition: Jewish topographies in the work of contemporary authors from Argentina . Berlin: wvb, Wiss. Publishing house, 2003
  • "They have not been able to erase our memories": a conversation between Jewish-Argentinian authors . Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Löcker-Verlag, 2016 (edition pen, 39)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A los cuatro meses del fallecimiento de Mario Szichman accessed on August 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Szichman, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2018
Place of death New York City