Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig was born with the name Juan Manuel PuigDelledonne on the 28^th December 1932 in General Villegas, Argentina; he died on the 22^nd July 1990 in Mexico. He was an argentine writer. Among his best popular works are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968),Boquitaspintadas (1969)and El beso de la mujeraraña (1976) that was made into a movie by the Argentine-Brazilian director called HéctorBabenco.

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Life

Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas in Buenos Aires region of the country. After an unsuccessful studying of Architecture in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he started working as a movie activist and as an editor in the city of Buenos Aires and in Italy after he won a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Buenos Aires. His dream was to become a screenwriter. In the 1960s, he went back to Buenos Aires and it was there that he wrote his debut major novel called La traición de Rita Hayworth. Manuel Puig moved to Mexico in the ear 1973 and it was there that he wrote his subsequent works.

Manuel Puig lived in exile all through most of his life. In the year 1989, he moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico from Mexico City and it was there that he died in the year 1990

List of works

Novels

Ø  La traición de Rita Hayworth1968

Ø  Boquitaspintadas, 1969SeixBarral, 2004.

Ø  The Buenos Aires Affair 1973

Ø  El beso de la mujeraraña1976

Ø  Pubis angelical,SeixBarral, 1979.

Ø  Maldicióneterna a quien lea estaspáginas1980

Ø  Sangre de amorcorrespondido 1982.

Ø  Cae la noche tropical1988

Plays and screenplays

Ø  Bajounmanto de estrellas1983.

Ø  Beatriz ViterboEditora1997.

Ø  El beso de la mujeraraña1983

Ø  La cara del villano1985

Ø  Recuerdo de Tijuana1985.

Ø  Vivaldi: A Screenplay1991

Ø  El misterio del ramo de rosas (1987)

Ø  La tajada; Gardel, umalembranca, 1997.