Fernando Butazzoni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Fernando Butazzoni

Uruguayan writer

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1953

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Fernando Butazzoni

  • Fernando Butazzoni (born 1953) is a Uruguayan novelist and journalist.
  • Translated into a dozen languages, is winner of many international awards for literature and cinema.
  • In 1979, at the age of 25, he won the Casa de las AmĂ©ricas Literature Award.
  • The Mexican writer and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga described this work as "A pretty fucking powerful look at the relationship between life and death"His first novel (The open night) was awarded by the Confederation of Universities of Central America with the Latin American Narrative Award EDUCA, in 1981.
  • His works have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Rumanian Russian and others languages. In the Columbia Guide to the Latin America Novel...
  • (2007)Raymond Williams wrote about is novel Prince of death: "Is a vast historical work set in nineteenth century".
  • And Alexandra Falek, in her thesis The Fiction of Afterwards(New York University, 2007) emphasized that the Butazzoni's work is "an example of testimonial fiction".In 2009, director JosĂ© RamĂłn Novoa filmed his novel “A distant place”.
  • The film was starring Erich Wildpret and Marcela Kloosterboer. In 2013 the film God's Slave, written by Fernando Butazzoni, directed by Joel Novoa, have won several international film awards (in Huelva, Santa Barbara, Lleida, among others).
  • The film was described as riveting by Anath White in Roger Ebert siteIn 2014, Planeta Group publish “Ashes of Condor”, an extensive report about terrorism in Latin America.
  • The Uruguayan Book Chamber granted the BartolomĂ© Hidalgo Award 2014 during the International Book Fair in Montevideo.In 2016, Mario Vargas Llosa put the book Ashes of Condor on the short list of his Hispano-American Bienal, and Casa de las AmĂ©ricas granted the book with the JosĂ© MarĂ­a Arguedas Award. Bibliography Los dĂ­as de nuestra sangre (short stories), 1979. La noche abierta (novel) 1981.
  • (ISBN 84-8360-255-5) Con el ejĂ©rcito de Sandino (chronic), 1983. El tigre y la nieve (novel), 1986.
  • (ISBN 9974-95-080-5) Nicaragua: news of war (chronic), 1986. Dance of the Lost (novel), 1987. Prince of Death (novel), 1997.
  • (ISBN 950-731-173-4) LautrĂ©amont Kingdom (essay), 2004.
  • (ISBN 950-731-437-7) Imperfect Prophet (novel), 2009.
  • (ISBN 978-9974-643-29-1) A distant place (novel), 2009.
  • (ISBN 978-9974-643-82-6) Las cenizas del CĂłndor (novel), 2014.
  • (ISBN 978-9974-700-65-9) La vida y los papeles (Chronic), 2016.
  • (ISBN 978-9974-737-23-5) Una historia americana (novel); 2017 (ISBN 978-9974-881-16-7)

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