Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher

Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher
Néstor Perlongher in 1988.
Born	(1949-12-25)December 25, 1949 Avellaneda, Argentina
Died	November 26, 1992(1992-11-26) (aged 42) São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation	Poet
Period	1967-1992
Genre	Poetry, essay and short story

Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher (Avellaneda, 25 December 1949 - São Paulo, 26 November 1992) was an Argentine poet and anthropologist.

He graduated and completed his degree in sociology; he moved to São Paulo, where he graduated from the University of Campinas with a Master of Social Anthropology; where he was appointed professor in 1985.

His work appeared in the El Porteño, Alfonsina, Last Kingdom and Poetry Journal. He was active in the Frente de Liberación Homosexual.^[1] He died of AIDS in São Paulo.^[2]

Awards

• 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Works

• Austria-Hungría (Buenos Aires, Tierra Baldía, 1980).
• Alambres (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1987; Premio "Boris Vian" de Literatura Argentina).
• Hule (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1989) ISBN 978-950-9418-57-8.
• Parque Lezama (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1990).
• Aguas aéreas (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1990).
• El chorreo de las iluminaciones (Caracas, Pequeña Venecia, 1992).
• Poemas completos: 1980-1992, Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1997; Grupo Editorial Planeta S.A.I.C./Seix Barral, 2003, ISBN 978-950-731-366-0.

Non-fiction

• Prosa plebeya, Editors Christian Ferrer, Osvaldo Baigorria, Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1997, ISBN 978-950-581-191-5.
• Papeles insumisos, Editor Reynaldo Jiménez, Santiago Arcos, 2004, ISBN 978-987-21493-3-8.
• El negocio del deseo: la prostitución masculina en San Pablo, Paidós, 1999, ISBN 978-950-12-3803-7.
• La prostitución masculina, Ediciones de la Urraca, 1993, ISBN 978-950-9265-28-8.
• El Fantasma del SIDA, Puntosur, 1988.

References

1. "Nestor Perlongher". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
2. "Néstor Perlongher". Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
3. "Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". jsgmf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.

Sources

• Néstor Perlongher: the poetic search for an Argentine marginal voice, Ben Bollig, University of Wales Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7083-2123-2.
• Bollig, Ben "Nestor Perlongher and the Avant-Garde: Privileged Interlocuters and Inherited Techniques", Hispanic Review - Volume 73, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 157–184.
• The art of transition: Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis, Francine Masiello, Duke University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8223-2818-6.

External links

• Materials about Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher in the Néstor Perlongher Letters to Martha "Beba" Eguía and Ricardo Piglia held by Princeton University Library Special Collections