The Modern Novel

Biography

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (frequently known simply as simply Fogwill) was born in 1941 in Buenos Aires. His mother’s family was from HGenoa and she apparently descended from Martín Alonso Pinzón who accompanied Columbus on his voyages. He took a degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and then worked as a teacher. When the dictatorship took over he was fired for being a communist and went into marketing.

In 1979 he founded the publisher Tierra Baldía (=Waste Land) and published his first collection of poetry. He also published other Argentinian writers, such as César Aira. He wento on to write more poetry as well as short stories and, later, novels. While a few of his stories and poems have been published in English only one of his novels has. Fogwill is very well-known and influential in Argentina but is little known in the English-speaking world.

He died from pulmonary emphysema in 2010. His daughter Vera helped publish several of his works posthumously.

Books on Fogwill
Ricardo Strafacce: Rodolfo Fogwill. Una monografía (in Spanish)

Other links

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
On Fogwill
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
Obituary
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Remembering Fogwill
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (in Spanish)