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Rodolfo Walsh: Defender of Free Journalism

Rodolfo Walsh: Defender of Free Journalism

Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with Rodolfo Walsh: an Argentine writer famous for founding the genre of investigative journalism.

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Alejandra Pizarnik: The Darkest Legacy Left

Alejandra Pizarnik: The Darkest Legacy Left

The Beyond Borges series returns with Alejandra Pizarnik, the third female author to appear in the series and one of the most important and complex poets in Argentine writing.

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Ernesto Sabato: Literature’s Conscience

Ernesto Sabato: Literature’s Conscience

As we approach the first anniversary of his death, the Beyond Borges series arrives at Ernesto Sabato, an essayist and novelist who brought introduced existentialism to Argentine writing.

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Leopoldo Marechal: A Tale of Relegation and Rediscovery

Leopoldo Marechal: A Tale of Relegation and Rediscovery

The Beyond Borges series continues with Leopoldo Marechal: a poet and novelist purposefully overlooked by his contemporaries but later acknowledged as one of Argentina’s most important authors.

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Silvina Ocampo: Writing the Feminine into the Fantastic

Silvina Ocampo: Writing the Feminine into the Fantastic

Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with a look at one of Argentina’s lesser-known but most imaginative authors of fantastic fiction.

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Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Reinvention of Adventure

Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Reinvention of Adventure

Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with Adolfo Bioy Casares, a writer who revitalised the genre of adventure in Argentine literature.

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Oliverio Girondo: Advocating the Avant-Garde

Oliverio Girondo: Advocating the Avant-Garde

Following on from Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series Oliverio Girondo, the most-loved poet of 20th century Argentina and advocate of the Spanish American avant-garde.

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Jorge Luis Borges: The Face of Argentine Literature

Jorge Luis Borges: The Face of Argentine Literature

Having journeyed through 11 of Argentina’s most influential authors, the Beyond Borges series arrives at its namesake: Argentina’s most famous author and the face of national literature.

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Macedonio Fernández: A Museum of Possible Literatures

Macedonio Fernández: A Museum of Possible Literatures

The Beyond Borges series continues with Macedonio Fernández, one half of the most pivotal friendship in Argentine writing and one of the most innovative and iconoclastic authors in Latin American literature.

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Roberto Arlt: Direct from Buenos Aires’ Underbelly

Roberto Arlt: Direct from Buenos Aires’ Underbelly

In an ABC of Argentine literature, you’d expect to find three of the hardest-hitting household names. Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with the author whose name is first on everyone’s lips.

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