The Argentina literature was is and will be a pride that has a history of more than one hundred years. It keeps intact the mystic of a national brand that spreads argentine talents.
Al fin me he decidido a que mi pobre Martín Fierro salga a conocer el mundo, y allá va acogido al amparo de su nombre. This is the first sentence of the short setter of José Hernández for his editor in which he almost asked him for permission to publish her book. That description of the Gaucho with mates, guitars, metaphors and facones (gaucho's knife) made of this book an indisputable piece not only for the Argentine literature but also for the history of the country.
At the beginning of XX century, the Argentine literature started to show in the lyrics world. Gauchos, criollos and immigrants were important characters in the national works of a country that was assuming an identity that was being written in books. The poems of Alfosina Storni and the political novels of Sarmiento occupied a very important place in the world.
With two complete decades of the XX century, one of the most controversial writers by his way of thinking and respected for its way of writing: Jorge Luís Borges. The books Inquisiciones (1925), El tamaño de mi esperanza (1926) and El idioma de los argentinos (1928) were in the bookshops of the country and little by little in America and Europe. Meanwhile, Roberto Arltwas seducing with his look the nooks of the city with Juguete Ravioso (1926) and Siete Locos (1929).
Any morning in nineteen forty-something, Jorge Luis Borges was editor in chief of a secret literally magazine. He saw a tall man arriving. The man brought a handwritten book. The old man, not so old at that time, told him that came in ten days and he will have and answer. Next week, this man went for his handwriting but he could not recover it had been hand in to the printing workshop. Shortly after, he saw his story Casa Tomada with illustrations of Norah Borges and his sign in that magazine. That was how Julio Cortazar started his career as writer with Borges support.
Argentina amazing the world with a mature Borges; Adolfo Bioy Casares invented an extraordinary Morel (1940), Silvina Ocampo won the heart of the garden of sonnets (1946); Manuel Mujica Láinez showed the world a Mysterious Buenos Aires (1950), Julio Cortázar immortalized the BESTIARIOS
Adolfo Bioy Casares uncles were the owner of a very important dairy and they offered to pay him too much money if he prepared a flier with the advantages of the condensed milk and yogurt. The writer knew that his friend, Borges, was going through a difficult economic time and he decided to do the work with him. We were bored of that topic Bioy said we thought that it would be great to write stories, some day. So, years ago, thanks to a yogurt flier, Seis problemas para Isidoro Parodi (1942), Dos fantasias Memorables (1946), Un modelo para la muerte (1946), Libro del Cielo y del Infierno (1960), Crónicas de Bustos Domecq(1967) and Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977) were written. All these books were written by Borges and Bioy Casares.
During the dictatorship the burning and prohibition of national authors started. Osvaldo Bayer and his Patagonia Rebelde (1972), Tomás Eloy Martínez and La Pasión según Trelew (1973), Héctor Tizón and Sota de bastos, caballo de espadas (1975) and Juan Gelman with every of his poems, were exiled. However, during the democracy, the Argentine literature begun to collect the pages of new and old authors who do not want to keep quiet and they will not do it again.
Nowadays, different writers showed in their works the contribution of the greatest writers of the Argentina literature. The novel called Acerca de Roderer (1993) written by Guillermo Martínez was chosen as one of the best novels of the decade and the best of a young writer. The novel also was edited in Spain and it was also published in USA, Serbia and Norway.
Nowadays, Marcelo Birmajer is considered one of the most important Argentine writers known in Argentina and in the world. His book Un crimen secundario reached its tenth edition, with approximately 50.000 copies. In 1997, his book Fábulas salvajes has the possibility to participate of the International Catalogue The White Ravens held by the la Internationale Jugendbibliothek of Munich (Germany) and it was exposed in the per ragazzi de Bologna Fair (Italy)
Federico Andahazi, Argentine author of one of the bestselling books in the Country in recent times, El Anatomista (1997) , he also published the books Las Piadosas and Por Encargo that were distinguished in the National Competition of Stories of the Santo Tomás de Aquino Institute. His last novel, El Conquistador was published in November 2006.
