Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934 – January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer.
Life and work
He was born on July 16, 1934
From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in
From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in
In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Eloy Martínez was the director. He also collaborated in the newspaper La Opinion, founded by
On August 15, 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 significantly from the official version of the de facto Argentine government. On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of Trelew and from there 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 (1972–1975) Eloy Martínez was in charge of the cultural supplement of
During the year 1984 he moved to the United States to the
In 1991, he participated in the creation and launch of the daily newspaper Siglo 21 (November 8, 1991), owned by businessman Alfonso Dau and published by Jorge Zepeda Patterson in
The end of the 1990s saw him back in the United States, being entrusted as professor and director of the Latin American studies program at Rutgers University in New Jersey, although he maintained his collaboration with Latin American newspapers throughout this period, which was the inspiration as well for his last book Purgatory where he dealt with the sadness and melancholy of exile and the dire impact on the lives of the families of the "desaparecidos" (people that were kidnapped and presumed dead by the dictatorship known as "El Proceso").
Eloy Martínez was also a teacher and lecturer. He wrote columns for La Nación and the
Tomás Eloy Martínez died in Buenos Aires on January 31, 2010,[6] from cancer.
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 Económica de Argentina, S.A., 2006.
Main publications
- Sacred (1969)
- The Passion According to Trelew (1973, reissued in 1997)
- The Perón Novel (1985)
- La Mano del Amo (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 McLean (2004)[7]
- Purgatory translated by Frank Wynne (2008)
References
- ^ "Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)". BnF Data. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
- ^ Sebastian Rotella (July 4, 1996). "A Cultural Capital: Despite the 'Dirty War' of the '70s, Buenos Aires is still a Literary Haven". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^ "Muere Tomás Eloy Martínez, el novelista de Perón y Evita" El Mundo, accessed on February 1, 2010 (in Spanish)
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "Tango lessons" (Maya Jaggi interviews Tomás Eloy Martínez), The Guardian, February 3, 2007.
- ^ "Murió el escritor y periodista Tomás Eloy Martínez" Clarín (in Spanish)
- ^ "The Tango Singer, by Tomas Eloy Martinez, trans Anne McLean (review)", The Independent, February 10, 2006