Arnaldo Calveyra

Arnaldo Calveyra was born in the year 1929 in Mansilla, Entre Rios, Argentina. He is an argentine poet, novelist and a playwright residing in Paris, France since the year 1960. In the year 1999, Arnaldo Calveyra was made the commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters for the contributions he made to the arts of the country.

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Life

Arnaldo Calveyra was born in Mansilla, Argentina in the year 1929, and he spent his early life in Entre Rios region of the city. He started going to the high school in the year 1942 in the Concepcion del Uruguay. In the year 1950, Arnaldo Calveyra left the region and relocated to La Plata and it was there that he chased after his degree at the faculty of Humanities at the National University of La Plata. She was in Paris in December of the year 1960 for a research fellowship and it was there that he met with Julio Cortazar, Alejandra Pizarnik, Claude Roy, GaëtanPiconCristina Campo and Laure Bataillon. She got married to MoniqueTur and they had two children together, Beltran and Eva.

Awards

• Chevalier dansl'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, Ministry of Culture, 1986)
• Officier des Arts et des Lettres (France, Ministry of Culture, 1992)
• Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, Ministry of Culture, 1999)
• Guggenheim Poetry Fellow (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NY NY 2000)

Selected Bibliography

Ø  Cartasparaque la alegría (poetry), CooperativaImpresora y Distribuidora, Buenos Aires, 1959.

Ø  El diputadoestátriste (play), Editorial Leonardo, Buenos Aires, 1959.

Ø  Moctezuma (play) Collection Théâtre du Monde Entier, Editorial Gallimard, 1969 (French version, translation by Laure Bataillon).

Ø  Latin American Trip (play), Cahiers Renaud-Barrault n° 75, Editorial Gallimard, 1971 (French version).

Ø  Latin American Trip (play), Monte Avila Editores, Caracas, Venezuela, 1978 (Spanish version).

Ø  Lettres pour que la joie (poetry), Editorial ActesSud, 1983 (French translation by Laure Bataillon).

Ø  Iguana, iguana (poetry), Editorial ActesSud, 1985 (French translation by Laure Bataillon).

Ø  Journal du dératiseur (poetry), Editorial ActesSud, 1987 (French translation by Claire Durouvray).

Ø  Cartasparaque la alegría e Iguana, iguana (poetry), Editorial Libros de Tierra Firme, Buenos Aires, 1988.

Ø  L'éclipse de la balle (play) Editorial Papiers-ActesSud, 1988 (French translation by Florence Delay).

Ø  Los bares / Les bars (poetry, with a recording by Antonio Segui) Editorial Les Yeuxouverts, Ginebra, 1988.

Ø  Le lit d'Aurélia (fiction), Editorial ActesSud, 1989 (French translation by Laure Bataillon and Alain Keruzoré).

Ø  La cama de Aurelia (fiction), Editorial Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1990.

Ø  L'origine de la lumière (fiction), Editorial ActesSud, 1992 (French translation by Françoise Campo).

Ø  Palinure (poetry) Editorial Tarabuste, 1992 (translation by Laure Bataillon).

Ø  Anthologiepersonnelle (selection of poetry), Editorial ActesSud, edited by Florence Delay, 1994.

Ø  Second edition of Lettres pour que la joie (poetry), Editorial ActesSud, 1997.

Ø  El hombre delLuxemburgo (poetry) Editorial Tusquets, Barcelona, 1997.

Ø  Si l'Argentineest un roman (essay), Editorial ActesSud, 1998 (French translation by Claude Bleton).

Ø  L'homme du Luxembourg (poetry), Editorial ActesSud, 1998 (translation by Florence Delay).

Ø  La cama de Aurelia (fiction), TusquetsEditores, Buenos Aires, 1999.

Ø  Morse y otrostextos (poetry), Ediciones Mate, Buenos Aires, 1999.

Ø  Le livre du miroir (poetry), Ed. ActesSud, 2000 (French translation by Silvia Baron Supervielle).

Ø  "Apuntesparaunareencarnación", (poetry) Diario de poesía, No. 53, Buenos Aires, October 2002.

Ø  Si la Argentina fueraunanovela (essay), Editorial Simurg, Buenos Aires, 2000.

Ø  Libro de las mariposas (poetry), AlciónEditora, Córdoba, Argentina, 2001.

Ø  "Bibliothèquesidéales" (selected works for the 10th edition of LettressurCour), Editorial Le temps qu'ilfait, Vienne, France, July 2002.

Ø  Paris par écrit, Vingtécrivainsparlent de leur arrondissement, (selected works, collection) Éditions de l'Inventaireet la Maison des écrivains, Paris, 2002.

Ø  Diario del fumigador de guardia (poetry) Editorial VOX, Bahía Blanca, 2002.

Ø  Maïs en grégorien (poetry), Ed. ActesSud, 2003 (French translation by Anne Picard).

Ø  Second edition of L'origine de la lumière (fiction), Ed. ActesSud, 2003.

Ø  El origen de la luz (fiction), Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 2004.

Ø  Livre des papillons/Libro de las mariposas (poetry), Editorial Le temps qu'ilfait, Cognac, France, bilingual edition, 2004 (translation by Anne Picard).

Ø  Maizaldelgregoriano (poetry), Editorial Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2005.

Ø  Tres hombres (poetry), Editorial EloísaCartonera, Buenos Aires, 2005.

Ø  Diario de Eleusis (poetry), Editorial Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2006.

Ø  Journal d’Eleusis (poetry), edicionesActesSud, 2008 (translation by Claude Bleton).

Ø  Poesíareunida (complete collection of poetry), Editorial Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2008.

Ø  El cuadernogriego (poetry), Editorial Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2009.

Ø  Florida (essay), in Le goût de Buenos Aires, Jeanine Baude, Le Mercure de France, Paris, 2009.

Ø  Le cahier grec (poetry), ActesSud, 2010 (translation by Claude Bleton).

Ø  El caballoblanco de Mozart (essays), Editorial La BestiaEquilátera, Buenos Aires, 2010.

Ø  “Unaflorpara Selma” (fiction), in La ciudad como un plano, edited by Matías Serra Bradford, Editorial La BestiaEquilátera, Buenos Aires, 2010.

Ø  La lluvia de sobretecho… (poem from Cartasparaque la alegría, illustrated children’s book), Editorial MágicasNaranjas, Buenos Aires, 2011.