Abelardo Castillo (March 27, 1935 – May 2, 2017) was an
Argentine writer, novelist, essayist, diarist, born in the city of
San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur
boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...
in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines ''El Escarabajo de Oro'' and ''El Ornitorrinco''. He is well regarded in the field of Latin American literature. In 2014 he won the Diamond
Konex Award
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History and purpose
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as the best writer in the last decade in Argentina.
Works
![Abelardo Castillo 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Abelardo_Castillo_1.jpg)
*''Antología personal'' (1999)
*''La casa de ceniza'' (1967)
*''La casa de ceniza'' (1994)
*''Crónica de un iniciado'' (1991)
*''El cruce del Aqueronte'' (1982)
*''Cuentos crueles'' (1966)
*''Cuentos crueles'' (1982)
*''El que tiene sed'' (1989)
*''El Evangelio según Van Hutten'' (1999)
*''Israfel'' (2001)
*''Israfel, drama en dos actos y dos tabernas sobre la vida de Edgar Poe'' (1964)
*''Las maquinarias de la noche'' (1992)
*''Los mundos reales V : el espejo que tiemblo'' (2005)
*''El oficio de mentir : conversaciones con María Fasce'' (1998)
*''Las otras puertas;
uentos' (1961)
*''Las otras puertas, y otros cuentos'' (1972)
*''El otro Judas; o, El pájaro mágico'' (1961)
*''Las palabras y los días'' (1988)
*''Las panteras y el templo'' (1976)
*''El que tiene sed'' (1985)
*''Ser escritor'' (1997)
*''Teatro completo'' (1995)
*''Teatro: Sobre las piedras de Jericó. A partir de las 7. El otro Judas'' (1968)
*''Cuentos brutales'' with Rodolfo Walsh and Luisa Valenzuela (1997)
External links
*
Biographical details, literatura.org
1935 births
2017 deaths
People from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine male writers
Argentine diarists
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