Tomás Eloy Martínez

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Tomás Eloy Martínez

Tomás Eloy Martínez (born July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán , † January 31, 2010 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer , journalist , literary editor, film critic , screenwriter and university lecturer .

Tomás Eloy Martínez was considered one of the most famous contemporary Argentine writers. His novels have been translated many times.

Life

Tomás Eloy Martínez was initially known to his compatriots as a critically investigative journalist and film critic, and with the publication of his first novel ( Sagrado , 1969) also as a writer. In 1975 he went into exile after massive threats. In 1991 Martínez founded the daily newspaper Siglo 21 in Guadalajara, Mexico . Since 1996 he has also written columns for the New York Times , for La Nación in Buenos Aires and for the Spanish newspaper El País . In addition, he wrote scripts and was involved in television.

From 1984 to 1987 he taught at the US University of Maryland , from 1995 he was an associate professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey , where he was director of the Latin American program.

He became known worldwide with his 1995 novel Santa Evita about the odyssey of the embalmed corpse of Evita Peron . This work has been published in 20 countries. In 2002 he received the Spanish Premio Alfaguara de Novela for the novel The Flight of the Queen , which focuses on the corrupt political system of the Argentine President Carlos Menem and the effects on media professionals . In his last novel, Purgatorio , published in 2008, he tells about people who disappeared during the dictatorship of the military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

He lived in Highland Park, New Jersey until 2006, when he returned to Buenos Aires. There he died of cancer in January 2010.

Works (selection)

  • Santa Evita. Roman ("Santa Evita"). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-518-40843-7 (novel about Evita Perón ).
  • La pasión de Trelew . Editorial Granica, Buenos Aires 1973 (deals with the massacre in Trelew prison , Patagonia in August 1972).
  • The flight of the queen ("El vuelo de la reina"). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-518-41474-7 .
  • The general finds no rest (“La novela de Perón”, EA: 1985). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-518-41049-0 (fictional novel about Juan Perón ).
  • The tango singer. Roman ("El cantor de tango"). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45833-4 .
  • Purgatorio. Roman ("Purgatorio"), from the Spanish by Peter Schwaar; Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-10-048925-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Kunisch : As if what was invented was real. On the death of the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martinez, who loved playing with fiction and reality . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 2, 2010.
  2. ↑ Walter Heubrich: Heroine of the Shirtless. The Life of Eva Perón. FAZ, February 22, 1997, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Margrit Klingler-Clavijo: Falling into height. Deutschlandfunk, April 21, 2004, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ Thomas Schaller: Purgatorio. ORF 1, September 5, 2010, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Martínez, Tomás Eloy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH San Miguel de Tucuman
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2010
Place of death Buenos Aires