Beatriz Guido was an Argentine

Argentina

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 novelist and screenwriter.

Guido was born in Rosario

Rosario

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, Santa Fe Province

Santa Fe Province

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, the daughter of architect Ángel Guido (renowned as the creator of the National Flag Memorial

National Flag Memorial (Argentina)

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) and of Uruguayan actress Berta Eirin. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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.

She wrote her first novel, La casa del ángel, in 1954. Because of her outspoken anti-Peronism

Peronism

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, she was branded a "right-wing writer" and a "false aristocrat" by the government of Juan Perón

Juan Perón

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. In 1959 she married film director and screenwriter Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

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. She started working with her husband, who took several of her works to the screen.

In 1984 she won the Konex

Konex Award

Konex Foundation awards, or simple Konex awards are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation to Argentine cultural personalities.Created in 1980, where conceived as a way to reward the Argentine personalities and institutions of different fields, as well as to stimulate the beginners.Even though...

 Merit Diploma on Letters. That year she was appointed cultural attaché

Cultural attaché

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 of the Argentine Embassy in Spain

Spain

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. She died of a heart attack in Madrid

Madrid

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four years later, at the age of 63.