Juan José Saer
Argentinian writer (1937–2005)
Juan José Saer (28 June 1937 – 11 June 2005) was a major Argentine writer. For his novel The Event (La ocasión), he won the Premio Nadal in 1987. In 1990, he shared the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Las veredas de Saturno. In 2004, he received a Platinum Konex Award for his 1994–98 work.
Biography
Born in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, to Syrian immigrants originally from Damascus, Saer studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography. Thanks to a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1968 where he taught at the University of Rennes.
Suffering from lung cancer, he died in Paris on 11 June 2005, at the age of sixty-seven. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. At the time of his death he was writing the last chapters of his longest novel, La Grande, which ended up appearing posthumously along with Trabajos, a collection of literary articles that appeared in various newspapers and magazines that Saer already had ready for publication.
In 2012, the first instalment of his previously unpublished working notebooks were edited and published as Papeles de trabajo by Seix Barral in Argentina.
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