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Literature Award. The Mexican writer and screenwriter

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described his work as "A pretty fucking powerful look at the relationship between life and death".

Career

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

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, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Rumanian

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and others languages. In the ''Columbia Guide to the Latin America Novel...'' (2007),

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wrote about his novel ''Prince of death'': "Is a vast historical work set in nineteenth century". Alexandra Falek, in her thesis ''The Fiction of Afterwards''(

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, 2007), emphasized that the Butazzoni's work is "an example of testimonial fiction". In 2009, director José Ramón Novoa filmed his novel "A distant place". The film starred Erich Wildpret and

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. The film ''God's Slave'' (2013), written by Fernando Butazzoni, directed by Joel Novoa, has won several international film awards (in Huelva, Santa Barbara, Lleida, among others). The film was described as "riveting" by Anath White. In 2014, Planeta Group published "Ashes of Condor", an extensive report about terrorism in

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. The Uruguayan Book Chamber granted it the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award 2014 during the International Book Fair in Montevideo. In 2016,

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put the book ''Ashes of Condor'' on the short list of his Hispano-American Bienal, and

granted it with the

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Award.

Bibliography

*1979, ''Los días de nuestra sangre'' (short stories) *1981, ''La noche abierta'' (novel) () *1983, ''Con el ejército de Sandino'' (chronic) *1986, ''El tigre y la nieve'' (novel) () *1986, ''

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: news of war'' (chronic) *1987, ''Dance of the Lost'' (novel) *1997, ''Prince of Death'' (novel) () *2004, '' Lautréamont Kingdom'' (essay) () *2009, ''Imperfect Prophet'' (novel) () *2009, ''A distant place'' (novel) () *2014, ''Las cenizas del Cóndor'' (novel) () *2016, ''La vida y los papeles'' (chronic) () *2017, ''Una historia americana'' (novel) ()

Filmography (as writer)

*2002, ''Seregni-Rosencof'' *2010, ''A distant place'' (Avalon-Alpeh-Joel Films) *2013, ''God' Slave'' (Joel Films) *2014, ''Solo'' (Unity Films) *2016, ''Tamara'' (Unity Films, Joel Films)

References

External links

Official Website
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