the argentine writer Abel Posse He died this Friday at the age of 89. He was a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters (AAL) and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, note in his obituary the newspaper The nation.
Posse published the first of his fourteen novels, the lobsters, in 1969; two years later, he appeared the tiger’s mouth.
at the age of 89, the writer, academic and diplomat Abel Posse died; winner of the Rómulo Gallegos prize in 1987, he was one of the first authors to fictionalize the political violence of the 1970s in Argentinahttps://t.co/UmiM6hf3Pc
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In 1978, he started with Daimon the celebrated “Tetralogy of the Conquest”, which continued with the dogs of paradisea book for which he received the Rómulo Gallegos award in 1987, this source points out.
This novel was followed The long sunset of the walkerfrom 1992, which received the 92 Extremadura-America International Award from the Spanish Commission for the V Centenary.
Biography
Born in Córdoba, on January 7, 1934, Posse became a Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and received a PhD in Political Science from the Sorbonne, France.
From 1966 to 2004 he served as a diplomat without interruption. He was Minister Plenipotentiary of Argentina in Israel, and Ambassador in Czechoslovakia, Peru, Denmark and Spain.
He was one of the first Argentine authors to fictionalize the political violence of the 1970s in Argentina. time to diefrom 1979, is set in the city of Buenos Aires and narrates a confrontation between ideological factions, points The nation.
In 1998, in The Prague Notebooks, fictionalizes Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s stay in that city, before his death in Bolivia. The Cuban Lisandro Otero wrote of this work that it is a book that “consolidates his mastery and gives us a splendid interior vision of one of the great legends of our time.”
The Argentine newspaper recalls that at the end of 2009, Posse was appointed Minister of Education for the city of Buenos Aires by Mauricio Macri. But, due to criticism from teachers’ unions, human rights organizations and opposition politicians of his positions on various issues -among them, the military dictatorship, state terrorism and juvenile delinquency-, he had to give up twelve days of have assumed
That setback, unfortunately, eclipsed for a period the literary contribution of Posse, which will continue to be notable, beyond the ideological positions, points out the obituary of The nation.
“There are many years of solitude, of fighting against the blank page, of anxious search for that language that becomes a bridge between everyone’s word and our authenticity. And few -and therefore welcome and intense- the moments of that recognition that renews the necessary momentum for the continuation of the task”, said Posse upon receiving the Rómulo Gallegos award.
