Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky ( born January 13, 1939 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer and director.
Career
Edgardo Cozarinsky comes from a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Odessa and Kiev. He grew up, as he used to tell later, with old Hollywood movies in theaters of his neighborhood, and with the European literature. He studied literature at the university of his native city and earned his living as a film critic Argentine and Spanish newspapers and magazines. As a 20 - year-old he met Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares and they know by Jorge Luis Borges.
In 1974 he left because of the dramatic political situation before the death Juan Peron's Argentina and settled in France. He is an author and filmmaker (director, screenwriter and producer) " as a nomad from calling" partly in Paris and partly in Buenos Aires and employs in his literary and cinematic works by Borges, Chekhov and Nabokov.
Edgardo Cozarinsky wrote novels and short stories and essays. Thanks to the translations of his books, among others into French, English and German, he is one of the well-known outside the Spanish -speaking representatives of Argentine literature. He was a guest among others at the International Literature Festival Berlin 2007.
Works
Novel
- 2004 El rufián moldavo. ( Dt. They call me flighty and what I know .... Wagenbach, Berlin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8031-3210-9 ).
Stories
Short stories
- 2005 Museo del chisme.