Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano ( born January 6, 1943 in Mar del Plata, † January 29, 1997 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer and journalist.
Life
Soriano began to work the mid- 1960s as a journalist for the newspaper Primera Plana, Panorama, and La Opinión.
In 1973 he published his first novel Triste, solitario y final, an homage to the genre of the detective novel. The novel has been translated into twelve languages.
Until the military coup in 1976 Soriano continued working as a journalist in Buenos Aires. The political situation in Argentina forced him to emigrate to Belgium and then to Paris, where he led the monthly Sin Censura issued with Julio Cortázar.
In exile, he wrote and published his two novels No Habra más penas ni olvido (1978) and Cuarteles de invierno ( 1980), which were installed in 1982 in Argentina and made him the most widely read writer living in Argentina.
No habra más penas ni olvido, a description of the violent Peronism of the 1970s, was filmed by Héctor Olivera and received the " Silver Bear " at the Berlinale in Berlin.
Cuarteles de invierno, the story of an aging boxer and a tango singer during the military dictatorship in Argentina, first appeared in Italian, French and Polish and was in the GDR into German ( German: " winter quarters " ) translated and published. The book was in Italy in 1981 the award for the best foreign novel and was filmed twice.
1984, after Argentina's return to democracy, even Soriano returned to Buenos Aires. In the same year Artistas, locos y Criminales appeared. In 1986 the novel A sus plantas rendido un leon. Appeared in 1988 Rebeldes, Sonadores y Fugitivos, a collection of life stories. 1990 saw the novel Una sombra ya pronto seras, which was founded in 1994, again filmed by Héctor Olivera. In 1993 he published the novel El ojo de la patria and Cuentos de los años felices, a collection of short stories that were previously published in the daily newspaper Página/12. In 1995 he published his last novel, La hora sin sombra.
In 1996 again a collection of articles Piratas, fantasmas y dinosaurios and posthumously, in 1998, Memorias del Peregrino Mr. Fernández y otros Relatos.
Soriano died in 1997 from cancer. He was buried in the cemetery Chacarita.