Bernardo Verbitsky

Bernardo Verbitsky

Bernardo Verbitsky (22 November 1907 – 15 March 1979) was an Argentine writer and journalist, and father of Horacio Verbitsky.

Biography

Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo's Academy"). He reported Buenos Aires' ups and downs; his writings were linked to tango and other essential aspects of the city. Hugo del Carril based its 1958 motion picture Una cita con la vida ("A date with life" ) on Verbitsky's novel Calles de tango)

His 1957 novel Villa Miseria también es América (roughly "Povertyville is also [a part of] America") gave its popular name to Argentina's shanty towns (villas miseria).

Bernardo Verbitsky died in Buenos Aires on 15 March 1979.

Books in Spanish

• Es difícil empezar a vivir ("It's hard to start living") (1940)
• Significación de Stefan Zweig -ensayo- (1942)
• En estos años ("During these years") (1947)
• Café de los Angelitos y otros cuentos porteños ("Little Angels' Café and other porteño stories") (1950)
• Una pequeña familia ("A small family") (1951)
• La esquina ("The corner") (1953)
• Calles de tango ("Tango streets") (1953)
• Vacaciones ("Vacations") (1953)
• Un noviazgo ("A relationship") (1956)
• Villa Miseria también es América ("Povertyville is also America") (1957)
• Megatón -poemas- (1959)
• El teatro de Arthur Miller -ensayo- (1959)
• La tierra es azul ("The Earth is blue") (1961)
• Hamlet y Don Quijote (ensayo) (1964)
• Un hombre de papel (1966)
• La neurosis monta su espectáculo (1969)
• Etiquetas a los hombres -edit. in Barcelona- (1972)
• Enamorado de Joan Baez -edit. in Barcelona- (1975)
• Literatura y consciencia nacional -ensayos- (1975)
• Octubre maduro -stories- (1976)
• Hermana y sombra (1977)
• A pesar de todo -stories- (1978)

Awards

• "Ricardo Güiraldes" award, (in trial with Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo De Torre y Norah Lange) by Es Difícil Empezar a Vivir (1941).
• "Alberto Gerchunoff" award (1965) by Es Difícil Empezar a Vivir.
• "Faja de Honor" of the Writer's Argentina Society (SADE) by En esos años.
• "Municipal" award by Villa Miseria También Es América.
• Mention in an award from Kraft Edit. by Villa Miseria también es América.
• "Faja de Honor" of the SADE by La Neurosis Monta Su Espectáculo.
• "Club of the XIII" by Hermana Y Sombra.
• Dupuytrén Foundation award by Hermana Y Sombra.

Further reading

• Argentina's Jewish Short Story Writers, Rita M. Gardiol, 1986.
• Irene Caselli: Fighting for Basic Services, and News, in the Slums, 2015

Sources

• This article draws from the corresponding article in the Spanish Wikipedia.