Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher Explained

Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher
Birth Date:	25 December 1949
Birth Place:	Avellaneda, Argentina
Death Place:	São Paulo, Brazil
Period:	1967-1992
Genre:	Poetry, essay and short story

Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher (Avellaneda, 25 December 1949 - São Paulo, 26 November 1992) was an Argentine poet and anthropologist.

He graduated and completed his degree in sociology; he moved to São Paulo, where he graduated from the University of Campinas with a Master of Social Anthropology; where he was appointed professor in 1985.

His work appeared in the El Porteño, Alfonsina, Last Kingdom and Poetry Journal. He was active in the Frente de Liberación Homosexual.^[1] He died of AIDS in São Paulo.^[2]

Awards

• 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Works

• Austria-Hungría (Buenos Aires, Tierra Baldía, 1980).
• Alambres (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1987; Premio "Boris Vian" de Literatura Argentina).
• Hule (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1989) .
• Parque Lezama (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1990).
• Aguas aéreas (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1990).
• El chorreo de las iluminaciones (Caracas, Pequeña Venecia, 1992).
• Poemas completos: 1980-1992, Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1997; Grupo Editorial Planeta S.A.I.C./Seix Barral, 2003, .

Non-fiction

• Prosa plebeya, Editors Christian Ferrer, Osvaldo Baigorria, Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1997, .
• Papeles insumisos, Editor Reynaldo Jiménez, Santiago Arcos, 2004, .
• El negocio del deseo: la prostitución masculina en San Pablo, Paidós, 1999, .
• La prostitución masculina, Ediciones de la Urraca, 1993, .
• El Fantasma del SIDA, Puntosur, 1988.

Sources

• Néstor Perlongher: the poetic search for an Argentine marginal voice, Ben Bollig, University of Wales Press, 2008, .
• Bollig, Ben "Nestor Perlongher and the Avant-Garde: Privileged Interlocuters and Inherited Techniques", Hispanic Review - Volume 73, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 157–184.
• The art of transition: Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis, Francine Masiello, Duke University Press, 2001, .

External links

• Materials about Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher in the Néstor Perlongher Letters to Martha "Beba" Eguía and Ricardo Piglia held by Princeton University Library Special Collections

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nestor Perlongher . 2010-05-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609073843/http://www.elortiba.org/perlongher.html . 2010-06-09 .
2. Web site: Néstor Perlongher . 2010-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100202041231/http://www.tyhturismo.com/data/destinos/argentina/literatura/escritores/Perlongher/Perlongher.html . 2010-02-02 . dead .
3. Web site: Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . jsgmf.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726211735/http://jsgmf.org/fellows/11403-nestor-osvaldo-perlongher . 2011-07-26.