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Manuel Puig
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28 December 1932 - 22 July 1990
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Manuel Puig was born in 1932 in General Villegas, Argentina. Since childhood, he loved movies (thanks to which he even learned English). After moving to Buenos Aires in 1946, Manuel attended an American school, then began studying architecture, but soon, in 1951, preferring philosophy to philosophy, he entered the University of Buenos Aires. In 1955 he received a scholarship to the Center for Experimental Cinema and went to study in Rome. However, what he was taught did not match his expectations,
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Manuel Puig was born in 1932 in General Villegas, Argentina. Since childhood, he loved movies (thanks to which he even learned English). After moving to Buenos Aires in 1946, Manuel attended an American school, then began studying architecture, but soon, in 1951, preferring philosophy to philosophy, he entered the University of Buenos Aires. In 1955 he received a scholarship to the Center for Experimental Cinema and went to study in Rome. However, what he was taught did not match his expectations, and he went to Europe. Puig lived in Paris, London, Stockholm, worked as a teacher, assistant director of the film, dishwasher, translator of subtitles. Puig then began working on his first book. After getting a job at Air France, he moved to New York, where he later lectured at Columbia University. In 1967, Manuel Puig returned to his homeland, and in 1968 his debut, partly autobiographical novel The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth was published. In 1974, after the publication of the novel The Case in Buenos Aires (1973), in which criticism of Peronist politics was noticeable, the threat of repression by the regime of Isabel Peron forced the writer to emigrate. He lived in Brazil and in the United States from 1976 to 1980. In 1976, in Barcelona (Spain) was published the most famous novel by Manuel Puig - "Kiss of the Spider Woman". In 1982, he created his stage version, and in 1985, the Argentine director Hector Babenko on the novel was put nominated for an Oscar, the film of the same name, with William Hurt and Raul Julia in the lead roles. Among his other works are “Eternal Curse to the Readers of these Pages” (1982), “The Mystery of a Pink Bouquet” (1987), “Pala Tropical Night” (1988), etc. In 1989, Manuel Puig settled in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he died on July 22, 1990.