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Tomás Eloy Martínez (born
July 16,
1934 in
Tucumán) is an
Argentine journalist and writer. He obtained a degree in
Spanish and
Latin American literature from the
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, and an MA at the
University of Paris.
From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in
Buenos Aires for the
La Nación newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine
Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in
Paris. In 1970 he and many former writers of
Primera Plana worked at the magazine
Panorama, where Martínez was the director.
On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at
Rawson,
Chubut Province.
Panorama was the only publication in Buenos Aires that reported the correct story of the affair in Rawson, which differed significantly from the official version of the
de facto Argentine government. On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of
Trelew where he reported the Massacre of Trelew in his book
The Passion According to Trelew. The book was banned by the Argentine dictatorship.
For three years (1972-75) Martínez was in charge of the cultural supplement of
La Nación, after which he lived in exile (1975-83) in
Caracas,
Venezuela, where he remained active as a journalist, founding the newspaper
El Diario. In his book "The Memoirs of the General" he recounts that he was threatened by the "AAA", the
Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, and on one occasion gunmen held a pistol to the head of his 3-year-old son because they were witnesses to a crime which Martinez believes was an operation of the "AAA". He subsequently started the newspaper
Siglo 21 in
Guadalajara,
Mexico, and created the literary supplement
Primer Plano for the newspaper
Página/12 in Buenos Aires.
Martínez has also been a teacher and lecturer. He taught (1984-87) at the
University of Maryland. In 1995, he took a position as distinguished professor and director of the Latin American Studies program at
Rutgers University, New Jersey. He lives in nearby
Highland Park, New Jersey. He also has a home in
Buenos Aires. He writes columns for
La Nación and the
New York Times syndicate, and his articles have appeared in many newspapers and journals in Latin America.
He has published a number of books, one of which,
Santa Evita, has been translated into 32 languages and published in 50 countries. He was awarded the Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson scholarships and won the
Alfaguara award for the novel
Flight of the Queen for the year 2002. His works deal primarily (but not exclusively) with Argentina during and after the rule of
Juan Perón and his wife,
Eva Duarte de Perón (Evita).
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