Denevi, Marco

▪ 1999

      Argentine writer and political journalist whose first published novel, Rosaura a las diez (1954), won a Kraft award, given by an Argentine publisher, and went on to become a best-seller that was translated into a number of languages as well as being filmed, televised, and dramatized; another of his works, the short novel Ceremonia secreta (1960; Secret Ceremony, 1961), won a Life magazine prize and was the basis for a 1968 film (b. May 12, 1922, Sáenz Peña, Arg.—d. Dec. 12, 1998, Buenos Aires, Arg.).

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