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Toms Eloy Martnez

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Toms Eloy Martnez (July 16, 1934 January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer.

Contents
1 Life and work 2 Main publications 3 References 4 External links

Life and work

Born in San Miguel de Tucumn, Martnez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin Toms Eloy Martnez American literature from the University of Tucumn, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a lm critic in Buenos Aires for the La Nacin newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martnez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Pern, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels: La Novela de Pern (1985) and Santa Evita (1995).[1] In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Martnez was the director. On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at Rawson, Chubut Province. Panorama was the only publication in Buenos Aires that reported the correct story of the affair in Rawson, which differed signicantly from the ofcial version of the de facto Argentine government. On 22 August he was red at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of Trelew where he reported the Massacre of Trelew in his book The Passion According to Trelew. The book was banned by the Argentine dictatorship. For three years (1972-75) Martnez was in charge of the cultural supplement of La Nacin, after which he lived in exile (1975-83) in Caracas, Venezuela, where he remained active as a journalist, co-founding the newspaper El Diario de Caracas. In his book The Memoirs of the General he recounts that he was threatened by the "Triple A", the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, and on one occasion, gunmen held a pistol to the head of his three-year-old son because they were witnesses to a crime Martnez believed to be an operation led by the far-right paramilitary group. He subsequently started the newspaper Siglo 21 in Guadalajara, Mexico, and created the literary supplement Primer Plano for the newspaper Pgina/12 in Buenos Aires. Martnez has also been a teacher and lecturer. He taught (1984-87) at the University of Maryland. In 1995, he took a position as distinguished professor of Spanish literature (http://span-port.rutgers.edu/) and director of the Latin American Studies program at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He wrote columns for La Nacin

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and the New York Times syndicate, and his articles have appeared in many newspapers and journals in Latin America. He has published a number of books, one of which, Santa Evita, has been translated into 32 languages and published in 50 countries. He was awarded the Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and won the 2002 Premio Alfaguara de Novela for the novel Flight of the Queen. His works deal primarily (but not exclusively) with Argentina during and after the rule of Juan Domingo Pern and his wife, Eva Duarte de Pern (Evita).[2] Martnez died in Buenos Aires on 31 January 2010[3] after a long battle against a brain tumor.[4] An exhaustive list of his works may be found in The Other Reality -- Anthology with a prologue by Cristine Mattos, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Economica de Argentina, S.A.,2006.

Main publications
Sacred (1969) The Passion According to Trelew (1973, reissued in 1997) The Pern Novel (1985) La Mano del Amo (1991) The Hand of the Master (1991) Santa Evita (1995) The Memoirs of the General (1996) Common Place - Death (1998) The Argentine Dream (1999) True Fictions (2000) The Flight of the Queen (2002) Requiem for a Lost Country (2003) The Lives of the General (2004) The Tango Singer translated by Anne Maclean (2004)[5] Purgatory translated by Frank Wynne (2008)

References
1. ^ "Muere Toms Eloy Martnez, el novelista de Pern y Evita" (http://www.elmundo.es/america/2010/02/01/argentina/1264987013.html) El Mundo, accessed on 1 February 2010 (Spanish) 2. ^ "Tango lessons" (Maya Jaggi interviews Toms Eloy Martnez (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/feb/03/featuresreviews.guardianreview11), The Guardian, 3 February 2007. 3. ^ "Muri el escritor y periodista Toms Eloy Martnez" (http://www.clarin.com/diario/2010/01/31/um/m02130903.htm) Clarn (Spanish) 4. ^ "Dolor por la muerte de Toms Eloy Martnez" (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1228334) La Nacin (Spanish) 5. ^ The Tango Singer, by Tomas Eloy Martinez, trans Anne McLean (review), (http://www.independent.co.uk/artsentertainment/books/reviews/the-tango-singer-by-tomas-eloy-martinez-trans-anne-mclean-525663.html) The Independent, 10 February 2006

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Ofcial website of the Tomas Eloy Martinez Foundation, in Spanish (http://fundaciontem.org) Obituary The Independent UK (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tom225s-eloymart237nez-writer-celebrated-as-a-novelist-who-combined-ction-and-history-and-as-a-provocativejournalist-1888572.html) Obituary New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/arts/06martinez.html?em) special edition literary supplement LA NACION, in Spanish (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp? nota_id=1228745) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toms_Eloy_Martnez&oldid=589488681" Categories: 1934 births 2010 deaths People from Highland Park, New Jersey People from Tucumn Province Argentine people of Spanish descent National University of Tucumn alumni University of Paris alumni Argentine journalists Argentine writers Argentine academics Latin Americanists Guggenheim Fellows Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires Cancer deaths in Argentina Deaths from lung cancer This page was last modied on 6 January 2014 at 20:17. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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