Hugo Wast

Hugo Wast, pseudonym of Gustavo Martínez Zuviría, ( born October 22, 1883 in Córdoba, † March 28, 1962 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer.

Life

Wast was one of the most popular novelists of his time when he died in 1962, three million of his books were already sold. He was born Gustavo Martínez Zuviría in Córdoba and moved with his family to Santa Fe in the U.S. state of New Mexico, where he was in 1907 awarded an honorary doctorate in law later. First, he used the stage name " Hugo Wast " for his 1911 published novel Flor de durazno ( " The Flowering of peach "). The novel was his first commercial success. He was elected in 1916 as a Conservative in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. He also won the national literary prize for his 1925 published realist novel Desierto de piedra ( " stone desert "). He was known as an anti-Semite, starting with his inflammatory novel Oro ( " Gold, " 1935). His ideological attachment to " intégrisme, " a Catholic French national ideology, which was inspired by the National Front, was known after all.

Between 1931 and 1955 he was director of the Argentine National Library. 1943, as Minister of Public Education in the new military government of General Pedro Ramírez, he has brought religious education in public schools, a sixty -year-old Argentine secular tradition ending.

As the Catholic Church and President Juan Perón distanced themselves from each other, Wast was dismissed as director of the Argentine National Library, 1954. He died in 1962 in Buenos Aires.

Honors and Awards

Works

• Flor de Durazno. In 1912.
• The Raven House. Novel of a revolution in Argentina ' ( ' La Casa de los Cuervo "). Germania Verlag, Berlin, 1930.
• Valle Negro., 1918.
• The Relentless ( " La que no Perdono "). Germania Verlag, Berlin, 1929.
• Pata de Zorra. In 1924.
• In the stone desert. Novel from the Argentine Sierra ( " Desierto de Piedra "). Germania Verlag, Berlin 1928.
• Lucia Miranda. roman ( " Lucia Miranda" ). Alber Verlag, Freiburg / B. In 1949.
• The path of the Lamas ( " El Camino de las Llamas "). Publisher Obpacher, Munich 1962.
• Early heroism. Novel about the boy " Alegre ". Libreria Goethe, Buenos Aires, 1944.
• The conspiracy of Alzaga. Novel from the time of the struggle for freedom in South America ( " Myriam la conspiradora " and "El fuego de jinete "). Herder, Freiburg / B. In 1956.