Isidoro Blaisten
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Son of David Blaisten and Dora Gliclij, Blaisten was born in Concordia
Concordia, Entre Ríos
San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia is a city in the north-east of the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 142,000 inhabitants as of the , and is the head town of the department of the same name.Concordia lies on the right-hand shore of the Uruguay River, opposite...
, Argentina
Argentina
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. His family was among the many Argentine Jews who populated rural areas in Entre Ríos Province
Entre Ríos Province
Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....
during the early 20th century. Although born with the surname Blaistein, he would later spell it Blaisten, even though his signature occasionally read Blaistein.
He was a member of the Academia Argentine de Letras from 2001 until his death as well as a correspondent of the Real Academia Española
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies...
, mixing literature with his profession as a neighborhood bookseller after having been a publicist and child photographer. He collaborated with the magazine El escarabajo de oro and other journalistic media in Argentina.
Stories
- La felicidad (1969)
- La salvación (1972)
- El mago (1974)
- Dublín al Sur (1980)
- Cerrado por melancolía (1982)
- Cuentos anteriores (1982) (recompilation)
- A mí nunca me dejaban hablar (1985)
- Carroza y reina (1986)
- Al acecho (1995)
- Antología personal (1997)
External links
Further Reading
- Argentina's Jewish Short Story Writers, Rita M. Gardiol, 1986.