Andreas Rivera a pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 of Marcos Ribak, is an Argentine

Argentina

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 writer. Born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 to immigrant parents, he was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. From 1953–1957, Rivera worked on the staff of the magazine Plática. Currently, he lives in the city of Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

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Awards

In 1985 Rivera was awarded the Segundo Premio Municipal de Novela for En esta dulce tierra (On this Sweet Earth). In 1992 he won the Premio Nacional de Literatura for his novel La revolución es un sueño eterno (The Revolution is an Eternal Dream). La sierva (The Servant) received recognition as the best book of 1992 by the foundation El Libro. Rivera's novel El farmer (The Farmer), about the final years of Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas , was an argentine militar and politician, who was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires in 1829 to 1835, and then of the Argentine Confederation from 1835 until 1852...

 was one of the best selling books in Argentina during 1996. In 2004, he received a Konex

Konex Award

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Merit Diploma for literature.

Works

• El precio (1957).
• Los que no mueren (1959).
• Sol de sábado (1962).
• Cita (1965).
• Ajuste de cuentas (1972).
• Nada que perder (1982).
• Una lectura de la historia (1982).
• En esta dulce tierra (1984).
• La revolución es un sueño eterno (1987).
• Los vencedores no dudan (1989).
• El amigo de Baudelaire (1991).
• La sierva (1992).
• Mitteleuropa (1993).
• El verdugo en el umbral (1994).
• El farmer (1996).
• La lenta velocidad del coraje (1998).
• El profundo sur (1999).
• Tierra de exilio (2000).
• Hay que matar (2001).
• El manco Paz (2003).
• Cría de asesinos (2004).
• Esto por ahora (2005).