Conrado Nalé Roxlo
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Conrado Nalé Roxlo | |
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| Born | February 15, 1897 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | July 2, 1971 (aged 73) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Pen name | Chamico, Alguien |
| Occupation | playwright, screenwriter, humorist, poet, journalist |
| Genre | satire, children's literature, poetry, biographies |
| Notable works | Las puertas del purgatorio El cuervo del arca El grillo |
Conrado Nalé Roxlo (February 15, 1898 – July 2, 1971) was an Argentine writer, journalist and humorist from Buenos Aires.[1] He published poetry, short stories, plays, film scripts, prose pastiches, and other works and was the editor of two humor magazines and a newspaper literary supplement. He won the Premio Nacional de Teatro (National Prize for Theatre) and the Premio Nacional de Letras (National Prize for Literature) and was a member of the Academia Argentina de Letras.[2]
Life
[edit]Roxlo was born on 15 February 1898 in Buenos Aires to a Uraguayan family of French and Spanish descent. He studied at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras in Buenos Aires. In 1925, he married Teresa de la Fuente. In addition to his writing, he worked as a French translator and at the newspaper El Mundo, where he contributed a weekly series of memoirs. He died in Buenos Aires on 2 July 1971.[3][4]
Career
[edit]His first poetry collection, El Grillo (the cricket), was published in 1923. The title poem brought him immediate fame and the book won the Babel publishing house prize.[3] He published only two more collections, Claro desvelo in 1937 and De otro cielo in 1952, but although his poetic output was small, it was critically praised.[5]
His first play was La Cola de la Sirena (1941).[6] It received the Premio Nacional de Teatro, as did his later plays Una viuda difícil and El pacto de Cristina.[3]
He published a single novel, Extraño accidente (strange accident) (1960). His book of short stories Las puertas del purgatorio (The Purgatory Gates), was awarded the Premio Nacional de Letras in 1955.[4]
He produced many humorous short pieces under the pseudonyms Chamico and Alguien.[3][4] Many of these were compiled in collections including Cuentos de Chamico (1941), Cuentos de cabecera (1946), and Mi pueblo (1953).[4]
He edited a humorous weekly, Don Goyo, a satirical weekly for doctors, Esculapión, and the literary supplement of the newspaper Crítica.[4]
He also wrote children's literature and, with Mabel Mármol, biographies of Amadeo Villar (1963) and Alfonsina Storni (1965).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Gillespie, Ruth C. (1953). "Conrado Nalé Roxlo: Poet and Humorist". Hispania. 36 (1): 71-75.
- ^ "Conrado Nalé Roxlo". Periódico de Poesía. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Los cien años de Conrado Nalé Roxlo". La Nacion. 1 April 1998. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "Se cumplen 126 años del nacimiento de Conrado Nalé Roxlo". UACDRA. 15 Feb 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ Tull, John F. (1962). "POESÍA Y HUMORISMO EN LA OBRA DE NALÉ ROXLO". Hispanófila. 14: 41–44.
- ^ LÓPEZ, Dora Justa (1983). "El Teatro de Conrado Nalé Roxlo : Presencia y Función Del Mito En La Cola de La Sirena". Cahiers Du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Brésilien. 40: 59–65.
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