Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Fontanarrosa (born November 26, 1944 in Rosario , Argentina , † July 19, 2007 there ) was an Argentine writer and comic artist . He was best known by his nickname El Negro .
Life
«De mí se dirá posiblemente que soy un escritor cómico, a lo sumo. Y será cierto. No me interesa demasiado la definición que se haga de mí. No aspiro al Nobel de Literatura. Yo me doy por muy bien pagado cuando alguien se me acerca y me dice: me cagué de risa con tu libro. »
“They might say that I am at best a comedic writer. And that will be right. I'm not interested in the definition people make of me. I'm not looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature. I consider myself well paid when someone approaches me and says: I laughed my ass with your book . "
At the beginning of his career, Fontanarrosa mainly drew comic strips on the subject of football. His best known strips, however, are about a gaucho Inodoro Pereyra and his talking dog Mendieta and Boogie el Aceitoso .
He also wrote three novels ( Best Seller , El área 18 and La Gansada ) and seven books of comic short stories ( Los trenes matan a los autos , El mundo ha vivido equivocado , No sé si he sido claro , Nada del otro mundo , El mayor de mis defectos , Uno nunca sabe and La mesa de los galanes ).
His work has appeared in a number of Latin American news papers.
In 2003 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , and from then on he was dependent on a wheelchair. On July 19, 2007, Fontanarrosa suffered respiratory failure and was taken to hospital. He died an hour later.
Web links
- Literature by and about Roberto Fontanarrosa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Web presence (spanish)
- Short biography (Spanish)
- Biography (spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motto (Spanish) on his website ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontanarrosa, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | argentinian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosario (Santa Fe) , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 2007 |
| Place of death | Rosario (Santa Fe) |