Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (born in Buenos Aires in 1941), who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, is an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist.

Fogwill was a titular professor of the University of Buenos Aires, publisher of a legendary poetry book collection, essayist, and specialized columnist in communication subjects, literature and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk", which received the first prize in an important literary contest in 1980, made him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that took him to his present occupation as a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. He is perhaps particularly notable for his short novel Los pichiciegos (translated as Malvinas Requiem), which was one of the very first narratives to deal with the Falklands/Malvinas conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

Works

• The effect of reality ("El efecto de realidad") (1979), poems
• The hours of appointments ("Las horas de citas") (1980), poems
• My dead punk ("Mis muertos punk") (1980), stories
• Japanese music ("Música japonesa") (1982), stories
• Malvinas Requiem ("Los pichiciegos") (1983), novel (trans. Nick Caistor)
• Imaginary armies ("Ejércitos imaginarios") (1983), stories
• Birds of the head ("Pájaros de la cabeza") (1985), stories
• Parts of the whole("Partes del todo") (1990), poems
• The good new ("La buena nueva") (1990), novel
• A pale history of love ("Una pálida historia de amor") (1991), novel
• Girl punk ("Muchacha punk") (1992), stories
• Diurnal remains ("Restos diurnos") (1993), novel
• Songs of sailors in The Pampas ("Cantos de marineros en las pampas") (1998)
• To live Outside ("Vivir Afuera") (1998), novel

References

• Fogwill's homepage
• Beatriz Sarlo, "No olvidar la guerra", on Los pichiciegos