Carlos Gorostiza

Carlos Gorostiza was born on the 7^th June 1920. He is a popular argentine playwright, theatre director and a novelist.

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Life and Work

Carlos Gorostiza was born to Basque argentine parents in the upscale part of Buenos Aires borough of Palermo. His father abandoned the family in the year 1926 and the mother took up employment to work with a clothing designer and Carlos Gorostiza together with the brother had to enter the labour force as kids. The mother remarried in the year 1931 and had a daughter and they gradually recovered from the setback.

His stepfather who is also a playwright from Spain got him introduced to the theatre and in the year 1943, he did his first work called La clave encantada. The draw of the show permitted him to open a puppet theatre called La Estrella Grande and he started to frequent the Máscara theatre, which was the place he started a successful run as a Creon in their making of the classic Greek Tragedy, Antigone.

With the encouragement he got from his friends, Carlos Gorostiza was able to present his first play called El puente at the Máscara Theatre in the year 1949. El Puente, put into a professional version and directed by Armando Discépolo at the popular theatre of the country was adopted into a movie version under Carlos Gorostiza’s direction in the year 1950.

With the success of the work, Carlos Gorostiza went back to being a director of the theatre. Though he never had much spectators as he used to, his fame was restored as a screenwriter for Julio Saraceni's drama known as Marta Ferrari in the year 1956. When his play called El pan de la locura was produced in Buenos Aires in the year 1958 famed Cervantes Theatre to commendation. The tragedy gained him the converted Munincipal and Argentores Awards, and that was the award that got him an invitation to the Central University of Venezuela Drama School in the year 1960, and that was the place he taught and co-authored Los Caobos with Juana Sujo. When he got back to the country in the year 1964, he kept on going with his academic experience as a professor of drama in the University of Buenos Aires and there he was given an honor of Fullbright Scholarship in the year 1966. The next play he did, the tragedy called Los prójimos, got his a 2^ndMunincipal Grand Prize in the year 1967.

Carlos Gorostiza devoted his time to teaching and so produced only 2 new plays in the next ten years. A novel he wrote called Los cuartososcuros in the early part of the year 1976 got him a National Grand Prize for Literature. In the year 1978, he published his second novel called Los hermanosqueridos.

The return of democracy in the country, with the tragic Falklands War and the economic meltdown f the country, Carlos Gorostiza manufactured Killing Time and A Fire to Put Out in  the year 1982, a play that got him another Argentores Prize and the Silver Laurel of the Rotary Club. Election of the year 1983, made him go closer to the candidate of the progressive UCR called Raul Alfonso. Alfonso won the election of the year 1983 with the total of 12 point margin and toom the majorities in the lower house of congress.

Carlos Gorostiza was appointed to be the Secretary of Culture by the President of the country, Alfonso when he took up the mantle of leadership of the country on the 10^th December. Carlos Gorostiza rescinded the National Film Rating Entity and focused in assisting to encourage a strong regain of fame in the theatre and cinema of the country.

With the frustrations he got from the post’s limitations, he quietly resigned at the end of the year 1986 and he went back to writing, publishing a novella and collaborating on a popular documentary of the year 1989 of the Open Theatre and writing a sentimental look at his short stay with his barnstorming natural father, Aoroplanos. The play of the year 1990 got him many awards and reconnected him to his theatre audience.

Turning to his past, his mawkish play called Rear Patio of the year 1994 and the novel he published in the year 1999 called VuelanlasPalomas were less received. The novel he wrote in the year 2001 called Good People was followed by another tale about the curiosity of his childhood called The Masked Marauder in the year 2004. He debuted his long awaited play called El alma de papa in the year 2008.