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Camila Fabbri
Camila Fabbri (born 1989) is an Argentine writer, playwright and actress. Career Camila Fabbri was born 1989 in Buenos Aires. She studied at the Escuela de Arte Dramático and her first play (''Brick'') won a competition in 2010. A second play, ''Mi primer Hiroshima'' was performed in 2012. Fabbri was nominated for a Silver Condor for her role in the 2014 Martín Rejtman film '' Two Shots Fired''. She has also appeared in Verónica Chen's ''High Tide''. Fabbri made her debut as a writer in 2015 with the short story collection ''Los accidentes'' in 2015. Her second book was the non-fiction novel ''El día que apagaron la luz'' about the República Cromañón nightclub fire, followed by another short story anthology entitled ''Estamos a salvo''. In 2021, she was named by '' Granta'' magazine as one of the best writers under the age of 35 in the Spanish language. Two other Argentine writers were also listed: Martín Felipe Castagnet Martín Felipe Castagnet is an Argentine writ ...
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Silver Condor
The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor de Plata'') honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The awards are considered Argentina's equivalent of the Academy Awards. The association was organized on July 10, 1942, and the annual awards have been given since 1943, with breaks in between.IMDb
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Martín Rejtman
Martín Rejtman (born January 3, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer and film director. He is considered to be a key figure in the New Argentine Cinema, making films such as ''Silvia Prieto'' and ''The Magic Gloves''. His documentary ''Riders'' won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2020. Biography Martín Rejtman was born 3 January 1961 in Buenos Aires. He studied cinema at the Escuela Panamericana de Arte in Buenos Aires. He then took two years of film studies at New York University, making a short film every week. His first full-length film, ''Rapado'', was criticised by the National Film Institute of Argentina (INCAA), so he looked to foreign funders and settled upon a frugal film-making style which uses small crews and a low budget.Suárez, Pablo
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Two Shots Fired
''Two Shots Fired'' ( es, Dos disparos) is a 2014 Argentine drama film written and directed by Martín Rejtman. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot After a night spent clubbing, young man Mariano finds a gun in the toolshed and shoots himself once in the head and once in the stomach, surviving with minor injuries. At the same time, the family dog disappears. Mariano's mother Susana is concerned for his welfare and presses his brother Ezequiel to look after him. Mariano moves in with his brother, then discovers that when he plays the recorder the bullet inside him causes harmonic sounds, causing his chamber music quartet to fall apart. Ezequiel starts a casual romance with Ana, who has been breaking up with her boyfriend for two years. Susana takes sleeping pills and does not wake up for 72 hours, so her psychologist advises a holiday. She goes to the beach with Mariano's music teacher and an ...
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Verónica Chen
Verónica Chen (born 1969) is an Argentine film director, film editor, and screenwriter. Biography Verónica Chen was born in Buenos Aires, 1969. She grew up in Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 .... She is a graduate of the Centro de Experimentacion y Réalización Cinematográfica. Filmography * ''Los Inocentes'' (1994) (short film) * ''Qué felicidad'' (1994) (short film) * ''Soldado'' (1995) (short film) * ''Ariel Lavalle'' (1995) (short film) * ''Calor humano'' (1996) (short film) * ''2015'' (1996) (short film) * ''Ezeiza'' (1997) (short film) * ''Vagón fumador'' (2001) * ''Overblinded'' (2003) * ''Aguas argentinas'' (2003) * ''Ensayo'' (2003) (TV series) * '' Agua'' (2006) References External links * * 1969 births Living people Argentine film ...
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República Cromañón Nightclub Fire
A fire broke out in the crowded República Cromañón nightclub (mostly known in Argentina as simply "Cromañón") in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 December 2004, killing 194 people and leaving at least 1,492 injured. The nightclub República Cromañón (''Cro-Magnon Republic'') was a venue that held concerts and events, on 3060-3066-3070 Bartolomé Mitre street in the Balvanera neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. It was operated by Omar Chabán, and opened on 12 April 2004 with a concert by the band Callejeros, the same band that played on the night of the fire. The club was in a two-story building, with a main entrance with six doors behind it leading into the main area of the nightclub. On the night of the fire, four of the six doors were locked. There was also a connection to a nearby hotel, an emergency exit that was locked, and another emergency exit that was blocked by a fence in front of the stage. There were hardly any fire safety measures, with no reports of a fire detec ...
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Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, ''The Observer'' stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, ''Granta'' has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature published by Granta regularly win prizes such as the Forward Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more. History ''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann (who later became a major contributor to ''Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the medieval name ...
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Martín Felipe Castagnet
Martín Felipe Castagnet is an Argentine writer. He was born in La Plata on May 31, 1986. He obtained a PhD in literature from the National University of La Plata. He is an editor of the bilingual journal '' The Buenos Aires Review''. His first novel ''Bodies of Summer'' won the Saint-Nazaire MEET Young Latin American Literature Award and has been translated into English (by Frances Riddle), French, and Hebrew. In 2017, he published his second book ''Los mantras modernos''. Also that year, he was named as one of the Bogota39, a list of the most promising young writers in Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Castagnet, Martin Felipe Argentine writers 1986 births Living people People from La Plata ...
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Michel Nieva
Michel Nieva (born 1988) is an Argentine writer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He has written several books, among them the poetry collection ''Papelera de reciclaje'', novels such as ''¿Sueñan los gauchoides con ñandúes eléctricos?'' and ''Ascenso y apogeo del imperio argentino'', and essays compiled in the volume ''Tecnología y barbarie''. His prose work often deals with science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ... and speculative genres. He is also a teacher and translator. In 2021, he was named by '' Granta'' magazine as one of the best young writers in the Spanish language. References Argentine writers 1988 births Living people {{Argentina-writer-stub, date=August 2021 ...
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Argentine Writers
This is a list of Argentine literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. A *Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983) *Marcos Aguinis (born 1935) *César Aira (born 1949) * Andrés J. d'Alessio (1940–2009) * Marcelina Almeida (ca. 1830-1880) *Juan Álvarez (1878–1954) *Mario Amadeo (1911–1983) *Federico Andahazi (born 1963) * Eduardo Angeloz (1931-2017) *José Arce (1881–1968) * Juan Argerich (1862–1924) *Roberto Arlt (1900–1942) *Hilario Ascasubi (1807–1875) * Carlos Astrada (1894–1970) B *Odile Baron Supervielle (1915-2016) * Eduardo Belgrano Rawson (born 1943) * Eduardo Berti (born 1964) * Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) *Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) * Poldy Bird (1941-2018) *Marcelo Birmajer (born 1966) * Isidoro Blaisten (1933–2004) * Elsa Bornemann (1952–2013) *Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) *Miguel Brascó (1926–2014) *Edgar Brau (born 1958) * Esteban Lucas Bridges (1874–1949) * Delfina Bunge (188 ...
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1989 Births
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake rect 200 0 400 200 World Wide Web rect 400 0 600 200 Exxon Valdez oil spill rect 0 200 300 400 1 ...
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Living People
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