Author´s books
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Mario Szichman
Mario Szichman was born in Buenos Aires in 1945, and lived in Caracas from 1967 to 1971, where he worked as a journalist and wrote his novel False Chronical, which made it to the Casa de las Américas awards in 1969. The book was re-written and published in 1971 under the new title of The Real False Chronicle. In 1972 his novel The Jews of the Sweet Sea was published in Buenos Aires, and in 1975, when he returned to Caracas, he published the educational books Miguel Otero Silva: Mythology of a Frustrated Generation, and Ulsar: Culture and Dependence. Szichman lived in Venezuela until 1980, when he moved to the United States, and directed the cultural supplement of the newspaper Latest News and wrote his novel At 8.25 Evita Became Immortal, which was translated in to English and won the Ediciones del Norte Prize for Literature in Hanover, New Hampshire.