Marcos Aguinis

Marcos Aguinis ( born January 15, 1935 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine neurosurgeon and author.

Life

Aguinis ' father emigrated in 1928 from Bessarabia to Buenos Aires and soon attracted to relatives who lived in Cruz del Eje in the province of Cordoba. As a schoolchild Marcos Aguinis suffered because of his Jewish origin from discrimination by classmates and individual instructor. He soon became aware of the persecution of Jews in Germany, where all family members remaining in Europe of his father and his mother were killed. After his bar mitzvah, he began to intensively deal with literature and religion. He borrowed books about the Bible and about Israel in the public library from. Among other things, he read Stefan Zweig, the "History of the Religion of Israel," by Julio Nin y Silva, Emil Ludwig's book " The Son of Man ", " Muhammad and the Koran," the Spaniard Rafael Cansinos Assen and "Life of Jesus " by Ernest Renan. The reading of Renan's book was the beginning of his religious doubts. Today Aguini is agnostic.

During his school years, he began to write stories. After completion of education, he studied psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. As a twenty-three, he received a scholarship to study neurosurgery in Buenos Aires. His medical and psychiatric studies, he sat at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in France and Freiburg and Cologne with the help of a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation continued. After his return from Europe, he earned his doctorate at the University of Cordoba and working first as a neurosurgeon at the " Southern Regional Clinic ". During this time he published his first stories.

Work

Aguinis published his first book in 1963. Since then, he has published 11 novels, 16 volumes of essays, four collections of short stories and two biographies. His articles in newspapers and magazines in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe include a wide range of different topics. He has given numerous lectures and courses offered in Germany, Spain, the USA, France, Israel, Russia, Italy, and in almost all Latin American countries.

During the dictatorship in Argentina the spread of Aguinis ' works was subject to restrictions. Some of his works were published only abroad and brought into the country illegally.

When Argentina returned to democracy in December 1983, Aguinis was appointed Secretary of State and then to the Secretary of Culture of the country. He organized the PRONDEC, a national program for the democratization of culture, which was supported by UNESCO and the UN. He thus began intensive activities to raise awareness of their rights, obligations and opportunities to develop a real democracy. For his work he was nominated by UNESCO for the " Peace Education Prize".

Prizes and awards

  • Premio Planeta, Spain
  • Fernando Jeno Award, Mexico,
  • Meritorious Award for Culture of the Academy of Arts and Communication Sciences
  • National Award for Sociology
  • Sea Wolf Prize, the National Book Award
  • Argentina Society of Writers Honor Award, Pranavananda Swami Award
  • Annual Silver Plaque EFE Agency for its contribution to the strengthening of Latin American culture and language
  • Esteban Echeverría Award ( Free People )
  • J. B. Alberdi Award ( Hispanic American Center for Economic Research )
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
  • Doctor honoris causa of the Tel Aviv University ( 2002), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( 2010) and the University of San Luis ( 2000).
  • 1995 Grand Prize of Honor

Works (selection)

  • Maimonides (1963 )
  • El Combate Perpetuo (1971 )
  • Operativo Siesta (1977 )
  • Y la rama llena de frutos (1986 )
  • Importancia por contacto (1986 )
  • Todos los cuentos (1995 )
  • Refugiados: Crónica de un palestino (1969 )
  • La Cruz invertida (1970 )
  • Cantata de los diablos (1972 )
  • La conspiración de los idiotas (1978 )
  • Profanation del amor (1978 )
  • La Gesta del Marrano (1991 )
  • La Matriz del Infierno (1997)
  • Los Iluminados (2000)
  • Asalto al Paraíso (2002)
  • La Pasión según Carmela (2008)
  • Liova Corre hacia el Poder (2011)
  • Carta a un Esperanzada General (1983 )
  • El Valor de Escribir (1985 )
  • Un país de Novela (1988 )
  • Memorias de una Siembra (1990 )
  • Elogio de la culpa (1993 )
  • Nueva Esperanzada Carta a un General (1996 )
  • Diálogos sobre la Argentina y el fin del Milenio (1996 )
  • Nuevos Diálogos (1998)
  • El Encanto de Atroz Ser Argentino ( 2001)
  • El Cochero (2001)
  • Las Dudas y las Certezas (2001)
  • Las Redes del Odio (2003)
  • ¿ Qué Hacer? (2005)
  • El Encanto de Ser Atroz Argentinos 2 (2007)
  • Pobre Patria Mía! (2009)
  • El Elogio del Placer ' (2010)
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