Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría

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Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría (October 23, 1883-1962) best known for his pseudonym Hugo Wast was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and was a renowned novel and script writer.

He was known for his unabashed anti-semitism and his ideological association with French "integrisme," a Catholic Nationalist doctrine related to the National Front. In 1943, as Minister of Public Instruction of the military government, he reinstalled religious education in public schools breaking away from a sixty-year old secular tradition in Argentine education.

Some of his works are
  • La casa de los cuervos (Script) (1941)
  • Valle negro (1943)
  • El camino de las llamas (1942)
  • La casa de los cuervos (1941)
  • Flor de durazno (1917)