Osvaldo Soriano

Osvaldo Soriano was born on the 6^th January 1943; he died on the 29t January 1997. He was an argentine writer and a journalist.

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Biography

Osvaldo Soriano was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. From the start of La Opinion in the year 1971 by the editor JacoboTimerman, Osvaldo Soriano became a staff writer with the magazine. His first novel is called Triste, solitario y final, which he started six month after the not having any article published. In the story, a character with the name Osvaldo Soriano reconstructs the life of an English actor with the name Stan Laurel.

Sometimes after the Proceso de ReorganizaciónNacionalcoup d'etat in the country in the year 1976, Osvaldo Soriano moved to Brussels and then he moved to Paris and he was in Paris until the year 1984. After the fall of the military regime in the country, he went back to the country, Buenos Aires and his publication of books became a success.

In his books, Osvaldo Soriano mixed his experience as a democratic activist and as a great critic of the violence brandished by the conservative governments with more humour.

After his death in Buenos Aires in the year 1997, Osvaldo Soriano was buried in the La ChacaritaCemetarfy in Buenos Aires. His works has been translated to the at least 15 various languages and he has with his book influenced many film directors and film producers in the country and beyond.

Bibliography

Ø  Triste, solitario y final (1973)

Ø  No habramáspenasniolvido (1979, in Argentina 1983)

Ø  Cuarteles de invierno (1981, in Argentina 1983)

Ø  Artistas, locos y criminales (1983)

Ø  Funny Dirty Little War (1986)

Ø  Rebeldes, soñadores y fugitivos (1987)

Ø  A susplantasrendido un león (1988)

Ø  Winter Quarters (1989)

Ø  Unasombraya pronto serás (1990)

Ø  El ojo de la patria (1992)

Ø  Cuentos de los añosfelices (1993)

Ø  Shadows (1993), translation of Unasombraya pronto serás

Ø  La hora sin sombra (1995)

Ø  Fútbol (1998, a compilation of football (soccer) short stories

Ø  Soriano: unretrato, Editorial Norma, 2000.

Filmography

Ø  El Penaltimás largo del mundo (2005)

Ø  Il rigorepiu' lungo del mondo (2005),

Ø  UnaSombraya pronto serás (1994),

Ø  Cuarteles de invierno (1984)

Ø  Das Autogramm (1984)

Ø  No habrámáspenasniolvido (1983)

Ø  UnaMujer (1975)

Documentaries

Ø  Montes-Bradley, Eduardo (Director) (1999). Soriano [1] (Feature Documentary). USA: Patagonia Film Group, US.