Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: The authorities closed his [Rodolfo Fogwill's] bank accounts

and arrested him for "economic subversion". Thrown into jail, he could not pay his debts, and so eventually was tried for fraud.

When he came out, he wrote a story, Muchacha Punk (Punk Girl), which won a prize and led him to dedicate himself to literature. He founded his own publishing company, Tierra Baldía (Waste Land), where he published his poetry and stories, as well as that of young Argentine poets such as Osvaldo Lamborghini and Néstor Perlongher, and then began to write his own novels.

from The Guardian: Rodolfo Fogwill obituary

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