Juan Carlos Onetti

Juan Carlos Onetti ( born July 1, 1909 in Montevideo, † 30 May 1994, Madrid) was an Uruguayan writer.

Life

Juan Carlos Onetti was the son of Carlos Onetti and Honoria Borges. He had two siblings, older brother Raúl and his younger sister Raquel. In 1930 he moved with his then-wife María Amalia Onetti to Buenos Aires, where she chatted with odd jobs and in 1931 his son Jorge was born. In 1934 he moved back to Montevideo. From 1939 succeeded Onetti to earn his money with journalism and later also with literature. By 1941 he was editorial secretary of the magazine Marcha, in which he called for a reorientation of the literature of South America: His debut The shaft from 1939, with clear echoes of William Faulkner and Existentialism, considered by critics to be the first modern novel in South America.

From 1941 to 1955 Onetti lived again in Buenos Aires. In 1950 he published La vida breve, the first part of the cycle Santamaría ( on the fictional town of Santa María ). His third wife gave birth to 1951, the daughter María Isabel. 1955 married Onetti - in fourth marriage - the much younger violinist Dorothea Muhr, which he called Dolly, whom he had met in the late 1940s. She accompanied him into exile in Spain in 1975.

Onetti 1957 Head of the City Libraries in Montevideo. In 1974, he was sentenced during the military dictatorship to prison because he had been a member of a jury, after a junta - critical short story Nelson Marras excellent. After his release in 1975 he left the country and moved to Madrid, where he continued his work as a writer. Onetti died in Madrid and is also buried there.

Awards

In 1962 he won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in Uruguay. On November 16, 1980 he was awarded the Cervantespreis, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish -speaking world. In 1985 he was awarded the Gran Premio Nacional de Literatura Uruguay and on 15 November 1990 Premio de la Unión Latina de Literatura.

Works

  • El pozo ( The Bay, 1939)
  • Tierra de nadie 1941
  • Para esta noche 1943, German: For this night, translated by Svenja Becker, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 978-3-518-42054-6
  • Un Sueño Realizado ( A dream come true, 1943)
  • La vida breve ( The Short Life, 1950, Santa María cycle )
  • Los adioses, ( hen, 1954)
  • Para una tumba sin nombre ( For a nameless grave, 1959)
  • La cara de la desgracia 1960
  • El astillero ( The shipyard, 1961, Cycle Santa María )
  • El infierno tan y otros cuentos temido 1962
  • Tan triste como ella ( As sad as she, 1963)
  • Juntacadáveres ( Body Snatcher, 1964 Cycle Santa María )
  • La muerte y la niña ( Death and the Maiden, 1973)
  • Tiempo de abrazar 1974
  • Hablar al viento Dejemos (Let us speak the Wind, 1979)
  • Presencia y otros cuentos, 1986
  • Cuando entonces ( Magda, 1987)
  • Cuando ya no importe (If it is not important anymore, 1993)
  • Welcome, Bob - Collected Stories ( 1998)
  • Collected Works 2 - The short life, farewells, for a grave with no name (2007)

Films

2008, under the title Nuit de Chien on the Film Festival in Venice, the film adaptation of the novel para esta noche Onettis by Werner Schroeter, produced by Paulo Branco, its premiere. The German title of the film is: this night.

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