Martín Caparrós

Martín Caparrós (born May 29, 1957 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer.[1] His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in journalism was with the now defunct daily Noticias. In 1976, Caparrós fled to exile following the military coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla. In Paris, he obtained a degree in history at the University of Paris. Caparrós would later relocate to Madrid, Spain. During the early 1980s, he resettled to Buenos Aires and since then he has produced a vast body of work including fiction and nonfiction alike.

Martín Caparrós
Born (1957-05-29) May 29, 1957
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationNovelist, journalist.
GenreVarious
Martín Caparrós

List of selected works

Fiction

  • 1984 Ansay o los infortunios de la gloria
  • 1986 No velas a tus muertos
  • 1990 El tercer cuerpo
  • 1990 La noche anterior
  • 1999 La Historia
  • 2001 Un día en la vida de Dios
  • 2004 Valfierno
  • 2008 A quien corresponda
  • 2011 Los Living
  • 2013 Comí
  • 2016 Echeverría
  • 2018 Todo por la patria

Non-fiction

  • 1992 Larga distancia
  • 1994 Dios Mío
  • 1995 La Patria Capicúa
  • 1997 La Voluntad, (Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina). Authored alongside Eduardo Anguita.
  • 1999 La guerra moderna
  • 2001 Extinción, últimas imágenes del trabajo en la Argentina.
  • 2002 Bingo!
  • 2003 Amor y anarquía
  • 2002 Qué País, Informe urgente sobre la Argentina que viene.
  • 2005 Boquita, Editorial Planeta, 354 pages.
  • 2006 El Interior.
  • 2009 Una luna.
  • 2012 Argentinismos.[2]
  • 2014 El Hambre.
  • 2016 Lacronica
  • 2018 Postales
  • 2019 Ahorita
  • Voltaire, El ingenuo y Filosofía de la historia (editor)
  • Moreno, Plan revolucionario de operaciones (editor)
  • Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliette (translator)

Filmography

  • Crónicas Mexicas, dir. Rita Clavel (aka Eduardo Montes-Bradley). Argentina, 2003. (Documentary)
  • Cazadores de Utopías, dir. David Blaustein. Argentina (Documentary)

References

  1. Lockhart, Darrell B. (2004). Latin American mystery writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 48–50. ISBN 978-0-313-30554-2. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  2. "Martín Caparrós - Libros y obras del autor, biografía y bibliografía", Lecturalia, Retrieved 8 January 2016.


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