Fernando Butazzoni
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Uruguay, Montevideo
NationalityUruguayan
Notable workSlave of God, El profeta imperfecto, Las cenizas del Condor
MovementNovel, journalism
AwardsPremio 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".[8]

In 2009, director José Ramón Novoa filmed his novel "A distant place".[9] 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,[10] Lleida, among others).[11] The film was described as "riveting" by Anath White.[12]

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.[13]

In 2016, Mario Vargas Llosa put the book Ashes of Condor on the short list of his Hispano-American Bienal,[14] and Casa de las Américas granted it with the José María Arguedas Award.

Bibliography

  • 1979, Los días de nuestra sangre (short stories)
  • 1981, La noche abierta (novel) (ISBN 84-8360-255-5)
  • 1983, Con el ejército de Sandino (chronic)
  • 1986, El tigre y la nieve (novel) (ISBN 9974-95-080-5)
  • 1986, Nicaragua: news of war (chronic)
  • 1987, Dance of the Lost (novel)
  • 1997, Prince of Death (novel) (ISBN 950-731-173-4)
  • 2004, Lautréamont Kingdom (essay) (ISBN 950-731-437-7)
  • 2009, Imperfect Prophet (novel) (ISBN 978-9974-643-29-1)
  • 2009, A distant place (novel) (ISBN 978-9974-643-82-6)
  • 2014, Las cenizas del Cóndor (novel) (ISBN 978-9974-700-65-9)
  • 2016, La vida y los papeles (chronic) (ISBN 978-9974-737-23-5)
  • 2017, Una historia americana (novel) (ISBN 978-9974-881-16-7)

Filmography (as writer)

  • 2002, Seregni-Rosencof
  • 2010, A distant place (Avalon-Aleph-Joel Films)
  • 2013, God' Slave (Joel Films)
  • 2014, Solo (Unity Films)
  • 2016, Tamara (Unity Films, Joel Films)

References

  1. ↑ The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945, by Raymond Williams, Columbia University Press, 2007. Columbia University Press. September 2007. ISBN 9780231501699.
  2. ↑ "Guillermo Arriaga in Bomb Magazine, 76, New York, Summer 2001".
  3. ↑ "The most beloved..."
  4. ↑ Bibliotheque de Bordeaux. "Le tigre et la niege". Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  5. ↑ Reviste Universitá di Milano (2014). "Elogio dei regni imaginari". Altre Modernità (11): 217–226. doi:10.13130/2035-7680/4064.
  6. ↑ Picu, Hora. ""La căderea nopţii" de Fernando Butazzoni".
  7. ↑ металл, нас много, trad. de Yuri Vannikov, edited by Joven Guardia, Moscow, 1986
  8. ↑ Falek, Alexandra (January 2009). The fiction of afterwards: 'Mnemonic manifestations' in cultural works from Uruguay (1995--2005) (PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures thesis). New York University. ProQuest 275846152.
  9. ↑ "The Internet Movie Database". IMDb.
  10. ↑ "God's Slave in Santa Barbara".
  11. ↑ "Esclavo de Dios se estrena con polémica incluida". El Universal. June 30, 2013. Archived from the original on March 18, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Nice work if you can get it".
  13. ↑ El País (April 6, 2014). "Las cenizas del Cóndor al cine". Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  14. ↑ "El uruguayo Fernando Butazzoni finalista del Premio Vargas Llosa".
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