Federico Andahazi
Encyclopedia
Federico Andahazi is an Argentine
writer.
, Argentina, at Congreso, a very central neighborhood of the city.
He is one of the Argentine authors who have been translated to more languages across the world.
His books were published by the most prestigious publishers companies. In the United States, he has been published by Doubleday, in England by Transworld
, in France by Laffont, in Italy by Frassinelli, in China by China Times
, in Japan by Kadokawa
, in Germany by Krüger and dozens of publishing houses from various countries.
He gave lectures in very prestigious places like the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the University of Moscow, Russia, and the University of Santos Ossa of Antofagasta, Chile]. He also gave talks in Stockholm, London, Paris, Istanbul and other cities of Europe, Latin America
and The United States.
He had participated in literary congresses in France, Finland, and several cities in Spain among others.
He was invited to numerous book fairs such as Guadalajara
, Moscow, Pula
, Istanbul
, Madrid
, Barcelona
and, of course Buenos Aires and almost all of Argentina.
He has collaborated with most of major newspapers and magazines in his country: Clarín
, La Nación
, Perfil
, Noticias, Veintitrés
, Lamujerdemivida, Brando, V de Vian, etc. And in several publications from Latin America, the United States and Europe, such as Loft from USA, O Independente
from Portugal, El Gatopardo and Soho from Colombia
, etc.
His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.
During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture. It was at this time when he began writing his first stories.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology
(University of Buenos Aires
); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories. In 1989, he finished his first novel El oficio de los santos, which is still unpublished by decision of the author.
The same year he received the First Prize of the with his short story "El sueño de los justos".
Towards the end of 1996, he awarded the CAMED Prize with the short story "Por encargo".
, his novel The Anatomist won the First Prize of the Fundación Fortabat. However, the mentor of the contest, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, announced her disagreement with the decision of the jury, through a request published in all the newspapers of Buenos Aires, in which she said that the novel “does not contribute to exalt the most high values of the human spirit”.
The jury, composed by important writers like María Angélica Bosco, Raúl Castagnino, José María Castiñeira de Dios, María Granata y Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer
, was disqualified by the authoritarian attitude of Mrs Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat.
After the scandal that the attitude produced, the literary competitions organized by the Fundación Fortabat have not been held again.
This unfortunate episode showed that the fusion of art and culture may not be the true objective of the Foundation.
Finally, The Anatomist was published by Editorial Planeta in 1997, and was translated into over thirty different languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
, this book displays a modern and ironic vision of Gothic
genre, discovers unsuspected regions of sexuality and immerses the reader in a troubling enigma.
In 1998 the publishing house Temas published a small volume with some of the short stories awarded titled El árbol de las tentaciones. There are three short stories that begin in the same way and they are located in similar settings (the last century Argentina), the stories flow with a strong and elegant prose.
Then, in 2000, he published El príncipe. It is a novel inspired in the tradition of magical realism. Andahazi knew how to create an apocalyptic atmosphere to talk about the excesses of power and manipulation of people’s wills.
In 2002, he published El secreto de los flamencos, a masterful novel set at the beginning of the Renaissance. It is about the war by the perfect technical of the painting. The story revolves around the mathematical secret of perspective and the mystery of colors.
The confrontation between the Flemish and Florentine schools, makes a thriller agile, plenty of fascinating riddles.
Errante en la sombra was published in 2004. It is an original musical novel unfolds as a spectacle in front of the reader who can 'see' and 'listen' to this story that takes place in the Buenos Aires that once was reality and now is a legend. Andahazi wrote more than forty tangos
to give life to this original story in which Carlos Gardel takes part.
During the summer of 2005 Andahazi and his readers worked in an interesting and original experience, in fact, the first of this kind in the world: the collective writing of a newspaper serial called Mapas del fin del mundo published by the newspaper Diario Clarín.
The author wrote the beginning of a text, giving the place to the readers to continue the story, creating characters, proposing plots, solving riddles, to be sent by e-mail. Therefore, in an unprecedented work, reading and answering thousands of e-mails per week, Andahazi built the story with the various inputs and points of view. Every Saturday a new chapter was added to the novel, increasing the participation and the expectation of readers converted into co-authors.
The same year, in 2005, was published La ciudad de los herejes, a novel set in medieval France, which revolves around the origin of the Shroud of Turin
. In this scenario, the author describes the dark mechanisms that generated the Church and the feudal power to establish sordid methods of control and oppression, building a new idolatry that Church said it fought.
In 2006, Federico Andahazi won the Planeta Prize
with his novel El conquistador. The jury unanimously decided the verdict. El conquistador is the story of Quetza, the most brilliant son of Tenochtitlan, ahead of Christopher Columbus he discovered a new continent: Europe.
He participated in numerous anthologies, among which are: Las palabras pueden: Los escritores y la infancia (2007, to UNICEF and World Food Program) with authors like José Saramago
, Carlos Fuentes
, Ernesto Sábato
, Juan Gelman
, Mario Benedetti
and Mario Vargas Llosa
.
Líneas aéreas (1999, published by Lengua de trapo, Spain) with writers such as Jorge Volpi
, Santiago Gamboa
and Edmundo Paz Soldán. A Whistler in the nightworld, short fiction from the Latin Americas (2002, published by Plume, USA) Laura Restrepo
and Ángeles Mastretta
among others. La Selección Argentina (2000, published by Tusquets).
El libro de los nuevos pecados capitales (2001, Norma Publishing Group). He also participated in the book Homage to Diego Maradona
(2001, SAF) in the prestigious company of Roberto Fontanarrosa
and Pacho O'Donnell
.
With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution.
Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
writer.
Brief
Federico Andahazi was born in Buenos AiresBuenos 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...
, Argentina, at Congreso, a very central neighborhood of the city.
He is one of the Argentine authors who have been translated to more languages across the world.
His books were published by the most prestigious publishers companies. In the United States, he has been published by Doubleday, in England by Transworld
Transworld (company)
Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing division of Random House and belongs to Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups. It was established in 1950, and for many years it was the British division of Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various...
, in France by Laffont, in Italy by Frassinelli, in China by China Times
China Times
The China Times is a newspaper published in the Republic of China in Traditional Chinese. It is one of the four biggest newspapers in Taiwan, the other three being the Liberty Times, United Daily News, and Apple Daily ....
, in Japan by Kadokawa
Kadokawa Shoten
is a well-known Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Kadokawa has published both manga novels and magazines, such as Newtype magazine...
, in Germany by Krüger and dozens of publishing houses from various countries.
He gave lectures in very prestigious places like the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the University of Moscow, Russia, and the University of Santos Ossa of Antofagasta, Chile]. He also gave talks in Stockholm, London, Paris, Istanbul and other cities of Europe, Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and The United States.
He had participated in literary congresses in France, Finland, and several cities in Spain among others.
He was invited to numerous book fairs such as Guadalajara
Guadalajara
Guadalajara may refer to:In Mexico:*Guadalajara, Jalisco, the capital of the state of Jalisco and second largest city in Mexico**Guadalajara Metropolitan Area*University of Guadalajara, a public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco...
, Moscow, Pula
Pula
Pula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 .Like the rest of the region, it is known for its mild climate, smooth sea, and unspoiled nature. The city has a long tradition of winemaking, fishing,...
, Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
and, of course Buenos Aires and almost all of Argentina.
He has collaborated with most of major newspapers and magazines in his country: Clarín
Clarín (newspaper)
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
, 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:...
, Perfil
Perfil
Perfil is an Argentine tabloid newspaper based in Buenos Aires.- History :The newspaper was first launched by Jorge Fontevecchia on 9 May 1998 as a daily newspaper, but poor sales forced its closure on 31 July of the same year....
, Noticias, Veintitrés
Veintitrés
-History:The magazine was established in 1998 as Veintiuno by Jorge Lanata and colleagues from the television news magazine, Día D: Adolfo Castelo, Olga Gatti, Claudio Martínez, Jorge Repiso, Ernesto Tenembaum, and Marcelo Zlotogwiazda...
, Lamujerdemivida, Brando, V de Vian, etc. And in several publications from Latin America, the United States and Europe, such as Loft from USA, O Independente
O Independente
O Independente was a Portuguese weekly newspaper, published on Fridays. It was founded in May 1988 by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, who became its first editor, and Paulo Portas, who succeeded him in 1990 and served until 1995, when he left to run for office as a conservative politician. Its last...
from Portugal, El Gatopardo and Soho from Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, etc.
His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.
The beginnings
Federico Andahazi is the son of Bela Andahazi, Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín.During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture. It was at this time when he began writing his first stories.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
(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...
); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories. In 1989, he finished his first novel El oficio de los santos, which is still unpublished by decision of the author.
Literary awards
In 1996, he won the First Prize of the Segunda Bienal de Arte Joven de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires with his short story "Almas misericordiosas".The same year he received the First Prize of the with his short story "El sueño de los justos".
Towards the end of 1996, he awarded the CAMED Prize with the short story "Por encargo".
The scandal Fortabat Awards
In 1996, while he was the finalist of Planeta AwardsPremio Planeta
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish . It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta....
, his novel The Anatomist won the First Prize of the Fundación Fortabat. However, the mentor of the contest, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, announced her disagreement with the decision of the jury, through a request published in all the newspapers of Buenos Aires, in which she said that the novel “does not contribute to exalt the most high values of the human spirit”.
The jury, composed by important writers like María Angélica Bosco, Raúl Castagnino, José María Castiñeira de Dios, María Granata y Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer
Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer
Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer was an Argentine writer, born in Esperanza, Santa Fe. From his mother side, he is related to Argentinean painter Sebastian Spreng, also a native of Esperanza....
, was disqualified by the authoritarian attitude of Mrs Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat.
After the scandal that the attitude produced, the literary competitions organized by the Fundación Fortabat have not been held again.
This unfortunate episode showed that the fusion of art and culture may not be the true objective of the Foundation.
Finally, The Anatomist was published by Editorial Planeta in 1997, and was translated into over thirty different languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
Works and other prizes
His second novel, The Merciful Women, was published in 1998. Located in summer of 1816 at Villa DiodatiVilla Diodati
The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori and others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre was laid.Originally called...
, this book displays a modern and ironic vision of Gothic
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...
genre, discovers unsuspected regions of sexuality and immerses the reader in a troubling enigma.
In 1998 the publishing house Temas published a small volume with some of the short stories awarded titled El árbol de las tentaciones. There are three short stories that begin in the same way and they are located in similar settings (the last century Argentina), the stories flow with a strong and elegant prose.
Then, in 2000, he published El príncipe. It is a novel inspired in the tradition of magical realism. Andahazi knew how to create an apocalyptic atmosphere to talk about the excesses of power and manipulation of people’s wills.
In 2002, he published El secreto de los flamencos, a masterful novel set at the beginning of the Renaissance. It is about the war by the perfect technical of the painting. The story revolves around the mathematical secret of perspective and the mystery of colors.
The confrontation between the Flemish and Florentine schools, makes a thriller agile, plenty of fascinating riddles.
Errante en la sombra was published in 2004. It is an original musical novel unfolds as a spectacle in front of the reader who can 'see' and 'listen' to this story that takes place in the Buenos Aires that once was reality and now is a legend. Andahazi wrote more than forty tangos
Argentine tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...
to give life to this original story in which Carlos Gardel takes part.
During the summer of 2005 Andahazi and his readers worked in an interesting and original experience, in fact, the first of this kind in the world: the collective writing of a newspaper serial called Mapas del fin del mundo published by the newspaper Diario Clarín.
The author wrote the beginning of a text, giving the place to the readers to continue the story, creating characters, proposing plots, solving riddles, to be sent by e-mail. Therefore, in an unprecedented work, reading and answering thousands of e-mails per week, Andahazi built the story with the various inputs and points of view. Every Saturday a new chapter was added to the novel, increasing the participation and the expectation of readers converted into co-authors.
The same year, in 2005, was published La ciudad de los herejes, a novel set in medieval France, which revolves around the origin of the Shroud of Turin
Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, northern Italy. The image on the shroud is...
. In this scenario, the author describes the dark mechanisms that generated the Church and the feudal power to establish sordid methods of control and oppression, building a new idolatry that Church said it fought.
In 2006, Federico Andahazi won the Planeta Prize
Premio Planeta
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish . It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta....
with his novel El conquistador. The jury unanimously decided the verdict. El conquistador is the story of Quetza, the most brilliant son of Tenochtitlan, ahead of Christopher Columbus he discovered a new continent: Europe.
He participated in numerous anthologies, among which are: Las palabras pueden: Los escritores y la infancia (2007, to UNICEF and World Food Program) with authors like José Saramago
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
, Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
, Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
, Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature...
, Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet....
and Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
.
Líneas aéreas (1999, published by Lengua de trapo, Spain) with writers such as Jorge Volpi
Jorge Volpi
Jorge Luis Volpi Escalante is a Mexican author best known for his 1999 novel En busca de Klingsor. Volpi was born in Mexico City. He studied law and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received a PhD in Spanish philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain...
, Santiago Gamboa
Santiago Gamboa
-Biography:Born at Bogotá, he studied literature at the Javerian University of Bogotá. He travelled to Spain where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares...
and Edmundo Paz Soldán. A Whistler in the nightworld, short fiction from the Latin Americas (2002, published by Plume, USA) Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo is one of the most skilled writers to emerge from Latin America since the days of the Latin American Boom. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1950 and after about 25 years she began to write her first serious works, mainly political columns. Her first fiction novel, Isle of...
and Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta is a Mexican author and journalist. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and political realities of Mexico in her life.-Background:...
among others. La Selección Argentina (2000, published by Tusquets).
El libro de los nuevos pecados capitales (2001, Norma Publishing Group). He also participated in the book Homage to Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona is a retired Argentine football player and widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys, setting...
(2001, SAF) in the prestigious company of Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa was an Argentine cartoonist and writer. He created the characters Inodoro Pereyra, a fictional gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a fictional serial killer.-Early life:...
and Pacho O'Donnell
Pacho O'Donnell
Mario O'Donnell , best known as Pacho O'Donnell, is an Argentine writer, politician and physician who specializes in psychoanalysis....
.
Pecar como Dios manda
In 2008, Andahazi published his first book of nonfiction, Pecar como Dios manda, Sexual History of Argentines. The essay runs in an hypothesis through all his work: you cannot understand the history of a country if you don’t know the history of sex that gestured it.With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution.
Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects.
Works
- El anatomista (The Anatomist)
- Las piadosas (The Merciful Women)
- El árbol de las tentaciones
- El príncipe
- El secreto de los flamencos
- Errante en la sombra
- La ciudad de los herejes
- El Conquistador
- Pecar como Dios manda. Historia sexual de los argentinos
External links
- Federico Andahazi Website: http://www.andahazi.com