Sergio Olguín

Sergio Olguín was born on the 29^th January 1967 in Buenos Aires. He is an argentine author, journalist and a literary critic. Most of the novels he has published have been classified as youth literature. He has though published novels and stories that are not classified under this genre.

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Biography

Sergio Olguín grew up in a middle class suburb of Buenos Aires known as Lanus and he studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires.

In the year 1983, Sergio Olguín won the First Prize of the Short Story competition that was arranged by magazine Humor &Juegos.

Sergio Olguín started his journalistic work in the year 1984. All through his career, he published articles in newspapers of the country like Página/12, La Nación, El País (Montevideo) and La Capital and also the magazines of the country liketrespuntos, Playboy, La Maga, Noticias, Film, Karavan (Stockholm) and some other media he worked as the editor of the magazine called Famiglia Cristiana until the year 1989.

In the year 1989, he was the joint winner of the First Prize in the poetry genre at the PrimeraBienal de Arte joven of the city of Buenos Aires. He also got a special position in the story genre of the competition. The next year he Sergio Olguín founded the cultural magazine called V de Vian that he managed until the year 2000. The magazine became a shock as they published pictures of a nude woman on the cover. The argentine book chamber in the year 1998 gave the magazine an award of Julio Cortázar Prize for alternative media in the country.

Sergio Olguín was the co-writer of the play called Imakinaria that was premiered in the year 1990 in Cemento. The play was also acted at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas of the Buenos Aires University in the year 1990. That same year, he became a founding member of the magazine called El amante cine, and he was the director of the magazine until the year 1992.

From the year 1992 to the year 1998, Sergio Olguínwas responsiblefor the book section of the magazine called Página/30. He was the literature section coordinator of the cultural even called Desde el Borde that was arranged by the FundaciónBancoPatricios in the year 1993.

In the year 1994, Sergio Olguín got a first mention in the Concurso de NarrativadelConcejoDeliberante of Buenos Aires city. His collection of short stories called Las griegas was published by Vian Editions in the year 1999. In that same year, he edited the book known as Najdorf X Najdorf that was written by LilianaNajdorf.

In the year 2000, Sergio Olguín started serving as a reader and as a consultant of TusquetsEditores Argentina. He was the chief editor of the portal known as TangoCity.

Sergio Olguín’s novel called Lanús was published in the year 2002. One of his stories called Hechaunafuria was added in the German anthology called Zerfurchtes Land.

Bibliography

Ø  Las griegas. Short stories. Buenos Aires, 1999.

Ø  Lanús. Novel. Buenos Aires, 2002.

Ø  Hechaunafuria ("Und wurdezurFurie"). Short story. 2002.

Ø  Filo. Novel. Buenos Aires, 2003.

Ø  El equipo de los sueños. Novel. Buenos Aires, 2004; Siruela, Madrid, 2005;

Ø  Springfield. Novel. Buenos Aires, 2007.

Ø  Oscuramonótona de sangre. Novel. Barcelona, 2010.