Manuel Puig

Donald Leslie Shaw (University of Virginia)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 28 Dec 1932
Died 22 Jul 1990
Activity 1968-1988

Places

Born in Argentina
Active in Argentina; Mexico

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Novelist

Resources

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Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas near Buenos Aires in 1932. He studied architecture and philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires before learning film directing in Rome. After many travels and hardships in Europe and the Americas, he published his first novel

La traición de Rita Hayworth

(

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

) in 1968 at the age of thirty-five. Fame came in 1976 with

El beso de la mujer arena

(

Kiss of the Spider Woman

), which gave rise to an award-winning film (1985) and a successful musical (1990). In between he had brought out

Boquitas pintadas

(1969) (

Heartbreak Tango

) and

The Buenos Aires Affair

(sic; 1973). There were four other novels before his premature death:

Pubis angelical

(1979),

Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas

(1980) (

Eternal Curse on the Reader

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Citation: Shaw, Donald Leslie. "Manuel Puig". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12619, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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