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Artistic and Literature in Spanish
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Tomás Eloy Martínez(1934-2010)

• Film critic for La Nación.
• Primera Plana and Panorama political magazines.
• Página 12.
• He was a teacher at Rutgers University, New
  Jersey.
• Columnist for The New York Times and La Nación.
• His most important novels are La novela de Perón
  (1985) and Santa Evita (1995).

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Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)

• He was born in Tucumán. He got his degree in
  Latin American and Spanish Literature.
• Film critic for La Nación.(1957-1961)
• Editor in chief of Primera Plana (1962-1969) and
  Panorama (1970-1972) both political magazines.
• Director of La Opinión Literary Supplement.
  (1972-1975)
• Between 1975 and 1983, he lived in exile in
  Caracas, Venezuela.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)

• He founded two journals El Diario de Caracas and
  Siglo XXI in México. (1977- 1979)
• He also created the Cultural Supplement of
  Página 12. (1991-1995)
• Since 1996, he became columnist for The New York
  Times Syndicate, El País (Spain) and La Nación.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)

• He was a teacher at University of Maryland.
  (1984-1987)
• Since 1995 till his death, he took a position as
  distinguished professor and director of the Latin
  American Studies program at Rutgers University,
  New Jersey.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez a writer

• His most important novels are La novela de Perón
  (1985) and Santa Evita (1995).
• He won the Alfaguara award for El vuelo de la
  reina (2002).
• In 2009, he became a member of National
  Journalism Academy.
• He was one of the teachers of Fundación para un
  Nuevo Periodismo, created by his friend Gabriel
  García Márquez.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez a writer

• Santa Evita, the story of what happened with her
  body after Perón outhrown in 1955, was translated
  to 32 languages and published in 50 countries
  (1995). Its Argentinian best seller novel.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his writing style

• La pasión según Trelew (1974) was part of the
  journalistic movement the New Journalism because
  it is a journalistic report to find the truth of
  what was called the Trelew masacre (Trelew
  manslought) (1972).

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his writing style

• True fiction to take historical people and facts
  and write a novel about them.
• New Journalism to use literary techniques to
  tell the thruth of any fact.
• E. g. Truman Capotes In cold blood.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his writing style

• A novel was, in his own words, a full freedom
  statement and so a novelist can manage reality as
  he needs it.
• He agrees with Hayden White that narratives could
  be considered the key to work out the problem of
  transforming knowledge into language.
• He tried to reach something that couldnt be
  reached in another way the story behind the
  history.
• He tells fictional events as if they were real
  facts.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his ideas

• His main subject is Argentinians history, our
  identity, the political events we have suffered,
  our people and our leaders.
• He was trying to find who we are and why we are
  by writing novels, articles and by teaching about
  our best writers.
• He did not write non fiction but stories full of
  historical characters.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his ideas

• Every great writer of Latin America was once a
  journalist Hernández, Borges, Arlt, Gabriel
  García Márquez (Colombia), Juan Carlos Onetti
  (Uruguay), Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay), Alfonso
  Reyes (México), José Martí (Cuba)...

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Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)

• Every great journalist become sooner or later in
  a great writer.
• He said What I write is what I am, and if I am
  not faithful to myself, I cant be faithful to my
  readers.
• Only what is written is historical. (Robin
  Collingwood). It means what is written is
  permanent.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his ideas

• Courage is needed to write and to talk about
  reality.
• Journalism has two goals taking care of the
  language (its tool) and its ethic.
• Journalists dont need to reconcile with nobody
  and with nothing.
• A journalist must constantly think about his
  reader. He must be honest, research a lot, be
  faithful to the truth no matter what.

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Tomás Eloy Martínez his ideas

• Journalism is a way of thinking, of creating, of
  helping people to have a better life.
• Journalists are privileged witnesses.
• It is important to keep calm and to have eyes
  wide open.
• Justice and freedom should not be separated. In
  fact, this is what democracy means.