Authors
Marcelo Birmajer Novelist Argentina
“I write because it is the only thing that I know. I write because it gives sense to my life. I write because it makes me feel free. And I write to earn my living. I want to write a story which could be understood and remembered by all the people in all countries, from all cultures and all traditions. I want to write a tale like Sanson’s story in the Bible, I want to write a series of stories like the ones Scherazade told in A Thousand and One Nights. I want to write love stories, war stories and ghost stories that can be told in winter nights, beside a fire, in a thousand years, the way they were told a thousand years before. I want to write stories that could give people the will to live.”
Born in Buenos Aires in 1966, Marcelo has published novels: A Secondary Crime (Un crímen secundario)(1992), The Soul to the Devil, (El alma al diablo)(1994), Savage Fables (Fábulas salvajes)(1996), collections of short stories: The Taller Fire, (El fuego más alto)(1997), Being Human and Other Misfortunes (Ser humano y otras desgracias)(1997), Tales of Married Men (Historias de hombres casados)(1999), No tan distinto (Not So Different, novel, 2000), Tres mosqueteros (Three Musketeers, novel, 2001), New Tales of Married Men, short stories (Nuevas historias de hombres casados)(2001) and Final Tales of Married Men (Últimas historias de hombres casados)(2004). He has co-written the screenplay of the feature film Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido), which won the Best Original Screenplay award at the Havana New Latin-American Film Festival in 2002, the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2004, the Clarin Award for the best screenplay and best movie, and was Oscar-nominated by the Argentinean Film Academy. He has been a contributor to more than fifty press outlets in Spanish, both in Latin-America and Spain. Some of his books have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German and Portuguese. In 2004, he received the Konex Award as one of the best five authors of the decade (1994-2004) in literature for young adults.
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature