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Rodolfo Rabanal (born June 15, 1940 in Buenos Aires) He is an Argentian writer and journalist, Managing Editor and columnist in various Argentine and foreign media.
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He studied two careers related to humanities but he didn´t finish them, before he became a journalist. He has worked as a correspondent, editor and columnist, mainly in “La Nacion “an Argentian newspaper among other print media. In 1979 Rodolfo received a scholarship to participate in the International Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, in The United States. In the 80s he was Assistant Secretary of Culture under President Raul Alfonsin. In 1988 he received the Guggenheim. He also received several prizes; the Municipal Novel Award in 1995 and the prize of “club de los 13”, in 1997and in l998 he got the “Pen Club Argentino” award for “ Cita en Marruecos”as the best novel of the year. His works have been translated into French, English and Polish.
In 2010 he was distinguished as one of the 200 individuals who contributed to the culture.
His first novel, “El Apartado” 1975 which turned him popular in his country and he also won a prize with this novel awarded by the literary and artistic café Bar-Baró, many writers consider this novel as a novel of cult
In 1978, his second novel, “Un dia perfecto” was published in Barcelona, and it quickly became best seller with over thirty thousand copies sold, a considerable amount for that time.
A year later, in 1979, Rabanal received Fulbright scholarship to participate in the International Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, in the United States this allowed him to go out from Argentina, during the military command .His third novel was published in Argentina and Spain simultaneously
Then he returned from United States and spend almost a year in Buenos Aires, he went with his family to France, he settled down in Paris as a correspondent for a Buenos Aires newspaper because of disagreements in the coverage of the Malvinas war, he resigned to that position. Almost immediately he started to work as a translator for the UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of France to serve as a cultural attaché. The ministry was in charge at that time of Jack Lang.
He returned to Buenos Aires in 1984 and a year later his fourth book The Passenger (el pasajero) appeared. During the first decade of democracy, Rabanal was named Undersecretary of Culture of the Nation of President Raul Alfonsin. In 1988 the draft of his novel “La Vida brillante”was awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation in New York. That same novel would receive years later the Municipal Prize of the city of Buenos Aires.
Others of his books are; “No vaya a Génova en invierno”(stories) ,” Los peligros de la dicha” and the novels “ El factor sentimental” 1990, Cita en Marruecos 1995,which won the prize “Los Trece” of Buenos Aires and it also was Rómulo Gallegos prize finalist,” La mujer Rusa “(2004) y “El héroe sin nombre” (2006). A book of essays"El roce de Dante" was published in 2008. In 2011 he published "La Vida Privada". In April 2014 he published "La vida Escrita", a development of two decades of personal notes about the life of a writer and his country.
He has published a book of essay and a travel chronic “ La Costa Bárbara” (2000) and a short children´s novel “ Noche en Gondwana “(1988). In 1987 he wrote the script “Gombrowiz or La seducción”, directed by Alberto Fischerman.
In the 1990s he worked as a Literature teacher at the University of Buenos Aires. Nowadays Rodolfo Rabanal lives in Uruguay