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| Born | (1927-07-28)28 July 1927 |
| Died | 10 March 2011(2011-03-10) (aged 83) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation(s) | Dramatist Critic Novelist Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1955–2008 |
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| Relatives | Ismael Viñas [es] (brother) |
David Viñas (28 July 1927 – 10 March 2011)[1] was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.
Viñas was born and raised inBuenos Aires, and enrolled in theUniversity of Buenos Aires, becoming head of theArgentine University Federation student organization. He published his first novel in 1955, and first came to wide attention when he won theGerchunoff Prize for his novelUn Dios Cotidiano (1957). He received the National Prize forJauria (1971). The following year, his playLisandro won the National Prize for Theater.
Viñas' work centers onArgentine history, and generally does not partake of themagical realism favored by many of his contemporaries. He is deeply concerned with Argentina's legacy ofauthoritarianism and the problems posed by the nature and historical dominance of theArgentine military. Two of his childrendisappeared during the 1976-83military regime, and he spent that era in exile, returning to Argentina in 1984.
He was an early mentor of critic and essayistBeatriz Sarlo, although he adhered to a more traditional leftist position than did Sarlo in later years. Following the election of left-wingPeronistNéstor Kirchner in 2003, he became a vocal supporter of his, and in 2008 co-foundedCarta Abierta ("Open Letter") with journalistHoracio Verbitsky, an informalthink tank of left-wing public figures in literature, journalism and academia who regularly publish opinion columns in defense ofKirchnerism.[2]
Viñas directed the Institute of Argentine Literature at hisAlma Mater.
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