Fernando Butazzoni Explained

Fernando Butazzoni
Birth Place:Uruguay, Montevideo
Movement:Novel, journalism
Works:Slave of God, El profeta imperfecto, Las cenizas del Condor
Awards:Premio Libro de Oro
Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo

Fernando Butazzoni (born 1953) is a Uruguayan novelist and journalist. Translated into a dozen languages, he is winner of many international awards for literature and cinema. In 1979, at the age of 25, he won the Casa de las Américas Literature Award.[1] The Mexican writer and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga described his work as "A pretty fucking powerful look at the relationship between life and death".[2]

Career

His first novel, The open night, was awarded by the Confederation of Universities of Central America with the Latin American Narrative Award EDUCA, in 1981. His works have been translated into English,[3] French,[4] Portuguese, Swedish, Italian,[5] Rumanian[6] Russian[7] and others languages.

In the Columbia Guide to the Latin America Novel... (2007), Raymond Williams wrote about his novel Prince of death: "Is a vast historical work set in nineteenth century". Alexandra Falek, in her thesis The Fiction of Afterwards(New York University, 2007), emphasized that the Butazzoni's work is "an example of testimonial fiction".

In 2009, director José Ramón Novoa filmed his novel "A distant place".[8] The film starred Erich Wildpret and Marcela Kloosterboer.

The film God's Slave (2013), written by Fernando Butazzoni, directed by Joel Novoa, has won several international film awards (in Huelva, Santa Barbara,[9] Lleida, among others).[10] The film was described as "riveting" by Anath White.[11]

In 2014, Planeta Group published "Ashes of Condor", an extensive report about terrorism in Latin America. The Uruguayan Book Chamber granted it the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award 2014 during the International Book Fair in Montevideo.[12]

In 2016, Mario Vargas Llosa put the book Ashes of Condor on the short list of his Hispano-American Bienal,[13] and Casa de las Américas granted it with the José María Arguedas Award.

Bibliography

Filmography (as writer)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945, by Raymond Williams, Columbia University Press, 2007. September 2007. Columbia University Press. 9780231501699.
  2. Web site: Guillermo Arriaga in Bomb Magazine, 76, New York, Summer 2001.
  3. Web site: The most beloved... .
  4. Web site: Le tigre et la niege . Bibliotheque de Bordeaux . 2022-03-27 . 2014-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140606212119/http://bibliotheque.bordeaux.fr/in/faces/details.xhtml?id=mgroup%3A9782876780071&mozQuirk=%3F&highlight=Auteur%3A%22Pons%20%2C%20Ren%C3%A9%20%281932-....%29%22&posInPage=9&bookmark=4b5516fc-0c48-423e-b71f-d44a395a0f59&jscheck=1.html . dead .
  5. Elogio dei regni imaginari . Reviste Universitá di Milano . Altre Modernità . 2014 . 11 . 217–226 . 10.13130/2035-7680/4064 .
  6. Web site: "La căderea nopţii" de Fernando Butazzoni . Picu, Hora .
  7. металл, нас много, trad. de Yuri Vannikov, edited by Joven Guardia, Moscow, 1986
  8. Web site: The Internet Movie Database. .
  9. Web site: God's Slave in Santa Barbara.
  10. Web site: Esclavo de Dios se estrena con polémica incluida . https://web.archive.org/web/20190318010922/http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/cine/130630/esclavo-de-dios-se-estrena-con-polemica-incluida.html . dead . March 18, 2019 . . June 30, 2013 . June 4, 2014.
  11. Web site: Nice work if you can get it.
  12. Web site: Las cenizas del Cóndor al cine . El País . April 6, 2014. June 4, 2014 . El País .
  13. Web site: El uruguayo Fernando Butazzoni finalista del Premio Vargas Llosa.

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