Sergio Olguín
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Sergio Olguín is an Argentinean author
, journalist
and literary critic
born on 29 January 1967 in Buenos Aires
. Whereas most of the novels that he has published to date can be categorised as youth literature, he has also published stories and novels that do not fall in this category.
and studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires
.
In 1983 he won the First Prize of the Short Story Competition organized by the magazine Humor & Juegos.
He begon his journalistic activity in 1984. Throughout his career, he has published articles in newspapers such as Página/12
, La Nación
, El País (Montevideo)
and La Capital
and the magazines trespuntos, Playboy
, La Maga, Noticias, Film, Karavan (Stockholm) and other media. Until 1989, he worked as editor of the magazine Famiglia Cristiana
, the publication of the Congregation of the Daughters of St Paul.
In 1989 he was the joint winner of the First Prize in the poetry category at the Primera Bienal de Arte Joven (First Biennial of Youth Art) of the City of Buenos Aires. He also obtained a special mention in the story category. The next year he founded the cultural magazine V de Vian, which he managed until 2000. The magazine set out to shock the establishment and always carried a picture of a nude woman on its cover. The Argentina Book Chamber awarded this magazine the Julio Cortázar Prize for alternative media in 1998.
He was co-author of the play "Imakinaria" that premiered in Cemento in 1990. The play was also staged at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas of the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. In the same year he was a founding member of the magazine El amante cine, that he directed until 1992.
From 1992 until 1998, he was responsible for the Books section of the magazine Página/30. He was also coordinator for the literature segment of the cultural event Desde el Borde, organized by the Fundación Banco Patricios in 1993.
The next year he obtained a First Mention in the Concurso de Narrativa del Concejo Deliberante of the City of Buenos Aires. He edited the books Secretos femeninos. Aguafuertes inéditas and Tratado de delincuencia. Aguafuertes inéditas which collected previously uncollected journalistic and critical writings of the Argentine cult writer Roberto Arlt
and were published by Ediciones 12 and Página/12
in 1996. From 1997 until 1999, he was responsible for the publishing house Vian Ediciones and manager of the Culture and Entertainment sections of the business daily Buenos Aires Económico (B.A.E.).
His collection of short stories Las griegas (The Greek) was published by Vian Editions in 1999. In the same year he edited the book Najdorf X Najdorf, written by Liliana Najdorf and he edited and wrote a foreword for the anthology Los mejores cuentos argentinos (The best Argentine short stories). He was also the editor in charge of the sections on Literature and Myths of the Twentieth Century of the portal operated by Advance Telecomunicaciones under Telefonica Group.
In 2000 he started working as a reader and consultant of Tusquets Editores Argentina. He edited and wrote the foreword for Cross a la mandíbula, Perón vuelve (Norma) and La selección argentina. Until 2003, he was chief editor of the portal TangoCity.
His novel Lanús was published in 2002. One of his stories Hecha una furia (Became a Fury) was included in the German anthology Zerfurchtes Land. Neue Erzählungen aus Argentinien (Furrowed land. New stories from Argentina)(Hainholz-Verlag, Göttingen) published in the same year.
The publisher Tusquets published his novel Filo in 2003. In the same year Olguín edited and wrote the foreword of the book Escritos con sangre (Written in Blood) (published by Standard), an anthology of stories based on Argentine police cases. He also became member of the governing board of the journal Lamujerdemivida (Thewomanofmylife), of which he would later become the chief editor.
The novel El equipo de los sueños (The dream team) was published in 2003 and won the Premio Destacados awarded by the Asociación Argentina de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (the Argentine Association for Children's and Youth Literature) in the fiction category. The French translation of El equipo de los sueños was a finalist for the 2006 Prix Libbylit "for best novel in a French language edition" (Brussels).
In 2006, he begon to direct the collection "Andanzas crónicas" of the publishing house Tusquets.
In 2007 his novel Springfield (alternative title: Vivir en Springfield) was published. The novel won the Jury Award for Criticism at the Book Fair of Buenos Aires.
His novel Oscura monótona de sangre won the 2009 Tusquet's price for literature. The jury that awarded the price was chaired by Juan Marsé
.
Author
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, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and literary critic
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
born on 29 January 1967 in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. Whereas most of the novels that he has published to date can be categorised as youth literature, he has also published stories and novels that do not fall in this category.
Biography
He grew up in a middle class suburb of Buenos Aires called LanúsLanús
Lanús is the capital of Lanús Partido, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. It lies just south of the capital city Buenos Aires, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The city has a population of 212,152 , and the Partido de Lanús has a total population of 453,500.A major industrial centre,...
and studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires is the largest university in Argentina and the largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos...
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In 1983 he won the First Prize of the Short Story Competition organized by the magazine Humor & Juegos.
He begon his journalistic activity in 1984. Throughout his career, he has published articles in newspapers such as Página/12
Página/12
Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Página/12 was founded on May 25, 1987, by journalist Jorge Lanata in association with writer Osvaldo Soriano and investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky...
, La Nación
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
, El País (Montevideo)
El País (Montevideo)
El País is a Uruguayan newspaper, published for the first time on September 14, 1918, and distributed nation-wide.Founded and published in Montevideo, El País was founded and directed by Leonel Aguirre, Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta and Washington Beltrán Barbat.Originally it was a political newspaper...
and La Capital
La Capital
La Capital is a daily Spanish-language newspaper edited and published in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It was founded in 1867 , and it is the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation, which has gained it the title of Decano de la Prensa Argentina...
and the magazines trespuntos, Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
, La Maga, Noticias, Film, Karavan (Stockholm) and other media. Until 1989, he worked as editor of the magazine Famiglia Cristiana
Famiglia Cristiana
Famiglia Cristiana is an Italian weekly magazine. It was founded in 1931, and is currently owned by Edizioni San Paolo, a Roman Catholic publishing group....
, the publication of the Congregation of the Daughters of St Paul.
In 1989 he was the joint winner of the First Prize in the poetry category at the Primera Bienal de Arte Joven (First Biennial of Youth Art) of the City of Buenos Aires. He also obtained a special mention in the story category. The next year he founded the cultural magazine V de Vian, which he managed until 2000. The magazine set out to shock the establishment and always carried a picture of a nude woman on its cover. The Argentina Book Chamber awarded this magazine the Julio Cortázar Prize for alternative media in 1998.
He was co-author of the play "Imakinaria" that premiered in Cemento in 1990. The play was also staged at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas of the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. In the same year he was a founding member of the magazine El amante cine, that he directed until 1992.
From 1992 until 1998, he was responsible for the Books section of the magazine Página/30. He was also coordinator for the literature segment of the cultural event Desde el Borde, organized by the Fundación Banco Patricios in 1993.
The next year he obtained a First Mention in the Concurso de Narrativa del Concejo Deliberante of the City of Buenos Aires. He edited the books Secretos femeninos. Aguafuertes inéditas and Tratado de delincuencia. Aguafuertes inéditas which collected previously uncollected journalistic and critical writings of the Argentine cult writer Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer.-Biography:He was born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking...
and were published by Ediciones 12 and Página/12
Página/12
Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Página/12 was founded on May 25, 1987, by journalist Jorge Lanata in association with writer Osvaldo Soriano and investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky...
in 1996. From 1997 until 1999, he was responsible for the publishing house Vian Ediciones and manager of the Culture and Entertainment sections of the business daily Buenos Aires Económico (B.A.E.).
His collection of short stories Las griegas (The Greek) was published by Vian Editions in 1999. In the same year he edited the book Najdorf X Najdorf, written by Liliana Najdorf and he edited and wrote a foreword for the anthology Los mejores cuentos argentinos (The best Argentine short stories). He was also the editor in charge of the sections on Literature and Myths of the Twentieth Century of the portal operated by Advance Telecomunicaciones under Telefonica Group.
In 2000 he started working as a reader and consultant of Tusquets Editores Argentina. He edited and wrote the foreword for Cross a la mandíbula, Perón vuelve (Norma) and La selección argentina. Until 2003, he was chief editor of the portal TangoCity.
His novel Lanús was published in 2002. One of his stories Hecha una furia (Became a Fury) was included in the German anthology Zerfurchtes Land. Neue Erzählungen aus Argentinien (Furrowed land. New stories from Argentina)(Hainholz-Verlag, Göttingen) published in the same year.
The publisher Tusquets published his novel Filo in 2003. In the same year Olguín edited and wrote the foreword of the book Escritos con sangre (Written in Blood) (published by Standard), an anthology of stories based on Argentine police cases. He also became member of the governing board of the journal Lamujerdemivida (Thewomanofmylife), of which he would later become the chief editor.
The novel El equipo de los sueños (The dream team) was published in 2003 and won the Premio Destacados awarded by the Asociación Argentina de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (the Argentine Association for Children's and Youth Literature) in the fiction category. The French translation of El equipo de los sueños was a finalist for the 2006 Prix Libbylit "for best novel in a French language edition" (Brussels).
In 2006, he begon to direct the collection "Andanzas crónicas" of the publishing house Tusquets.
In 2007 his novel Springfield (alternative title: Vivir en Springfield) was published. The novel won the Jury Award for Criticism at the Book Fair of Buenos Aires.
His novel Oscura monótona de sangre won the 2009 Tusquet's price for literature. The jury that awarded the price was chaired by Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé is a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter, born in Barcelona on January 8, 1933 as Juan Faneca Roca.His mother died in childbirth, and he was soon adopted by the Marsé family. At age 14 he started to publish some of his writings in Insula magazine and in a cinema magazine while...
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External links
- Sergio S. Olguín
- Sergio Olguín: la construcción de un escritor
- ENTREVISTA: SERGIO OLGUÍN Escritor. "Estoy radicalmente enfadado con la realidad pero no soy moralista"
- Sergio Olguín
- Sergio Olguín gana el Premio Tusquets Editores de Novela. La obsesión y doble moral estructuran la novela Oscura monótona sangre del escritor argentino
- Un intenso cruce de caminos. Periodismo y literatura se mezclan en la edición más diversa de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara