Horacio Vázquez-Rial (20 March 1947 – 6 September 2012) was an Argentine-born writer and translator who lived in Spain from 1968, mostly in
Barcelona.
He was nominated for the
Nadal Prize
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta Group, Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the ...
in 1987 for ''Historia del triste'', and in March 1989 he was a finalist for the fifth edition of the
Plaza y Janes Prize for ''La Reina de oros''.
[ His only work available in English is ''Triste's History''. He died in Madrid, aged 65.
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References
External links
Horacio Vázquez-Rial
official website
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1947 births
2012 deaths
Spanish male writers
Argentine male writers
Spanish people of Argentine descent
Writers from Barcelona