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Santiago Kovadloff Argentina
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Santiago Kovadloff was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. As a
poet and essayist, he is regarded as one of his country’s most outstanding
intellectuals. He has repeatedly taken a stand in the press on political and
cultural issues, and has also conquered a younger audience with his children’s
books.
The military dictatorship
forced Kovadloff to give up his university career. Today, he lives and works in
Buenos Aires as a writer and lecturer in philosophy and literature. Teaching
contracts and lecture tours have taken him to Brazil, Mexico, North America,
Israel, Portugal, Spain and England. Since 1994 he has been writing for the
German and Spanish edition of Lettre International.
In his poems, Kovadloff
repeatedly returns to the themes of the Holocaust, man’s alienation, and
transience. The essays make evident references to Jewish theosophy and Martin
Buber, on whom he wrote his doctoral thesis, and who is mentioned in many of
his publications.
In addition to his
philosophical works, Kovadloff also writes wonderfully droll books for
children. These stories carry children away to a bizarre, surreal world, which
inspires them to make new discoveries.
A selection of poems was
published in 1998 in Akzente and in Rowohlt Literatur Magazin 42. Essays
and poems have been published internationally in several anthologies and
magazines.
Kovadloff has been awarded
important prizes for his works; in 1992 he received the First National Prize
for Literature.
Santiago
Kovadloff is a writer whom I very much admire, not only intellectually but also
and primarily spiritually and emotionally, because for me poetic thought
penetrates deeper than logical thought, and spiritual values rank higher than
everything else.
Ernesto Sábato
Original editions and rights sold:
Essays (selection):
El silencio
primordial, Buenos Aires: Emecé 1993,
187 p.
Brazil: José Olympio 2003
Lo
irremediable,
Buenos Aires: Emecé 1996, 195 p.
Brazil: José Olympio 2005
Ensayos de
intimidad, Buenos Aires: Emecé 2002, 220 p.
El enigma del
sufrimiento, Buenos Aires: Emecé 2008,
283 p.
For children:
Natalia, queluces y cierto lugar, Buenos Aires: Magisterio
del Río de la Plata, 1989, 76 p.
Agustina y
cada cosa, Buenos Aires: Colihue
1989, 65 p.
El tobillo abandonado, Buenos Aires: Colihue 1991, 85 p.
República de
Evidencia, Buenos Aires: Lugar
Editorial 1993, 58 p.