Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (born January 6, 1943 in Mar del Plata , † January 29, 1997 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer and journalist .
Life
Soriano began working as a journalist for the Primera Plana , Panorama and La Opinión newspapers in the mid-1960s .
In 1973 his first novel Triste, solitario y final , a homage to the genre of the crime novel, was published . The novel has been translated into twelve languages.
Soriano continued to work as a journalist in Buenos Aires until the 1976 military coup . The political situation in Argentina forced him to emigrate to Belgium and then to Paris , where he and Julio Cortázar edited the monthly Sin Censura .
While he was in emigration, he wrote and published his two novels No habrá más penas ni olvido (1978) and Cuarteles de invierno (1980), which were also published in Argentina in 1982 and made him the most widely read living writer in Argentina.
No habrá más penas ni olvido , a description of the violent Peronism of the 1970s, was filmed by Héctor Olivera and received the "Silver Bear" at the Berlinale in Berlin.
Cuarteles de invierno , the story of an aging boxer and a tango singer during the military dictatorship in Argentina, first appeared in Italian, French and Polish and was translated and published in German (German: " Winter Quartiere ") in the GDR . The book received the prize for the best foreign novel in Italy in 1981 and has been made into a film twice.
In 1984, after Argentina returned to democracy, Soriano also returned to Buenos Aires. In the same year Artistas, locos y criminales appeared . In 1986 the novel A sus plantas rendido un león followed . In 1988 Rebeldes, soñadores y fugitivos , a collection of life stories, appeared. In 1990 the novel Una sombra ya pronto serás followed , which was filmed again in 1994 by Héctor Olivera . In 1993 he published the novel El ojo de la patria and Cuentos de los años felices , a collection of short stories that had previously appeared in the daily Página / 12 . His last novel La hora sin sombra was published in 1995 .
In 1996 another collection of articles appeared on Piratas, fantasmas y dinosaurios and posthumously, in 1998, Memorias del Mister Peregrino Fernández y otros relatos .
Soriano died of cancer in 1997. He was buried in the Chacarita cemetery.
Filmography (selection)
- Literary template
- 1983: Dirty guerrilla warfare ( No habrá más penas ni olvido )
- 1984: The autograph ( L'autographe ) - based on the novel "Cuarteles de Invierno"
- script
- 1975: In the shadow of many years ( Una mujer )
Web links
- Literature by and about Osvaldo Soriano in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Osvaldo Soriano in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Osvaldo Soriano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Osvaldo Soriano in Cinenacional.com (Spanish).
- Short biography + list of works (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soriano, Osvaldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mar del Plata |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1997 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |