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The writer and journalist Luis Gregorich, an intellectual of the word, died

2020-02-22T23:50:46.492Z


He was Clarín editorialist and columnist for Humor magazine. He was also undersecretary of Culture of the government of Raúl Alfonsín.


02/22/2020 - 20:40

  • Clarín.com
  • Culture

At 81, the writer, essayist and journalist Luis Gregorich died in a Buenos Aires clinic, an intellectual who stood out as a cultural manager and also for leaving his stamp on numerous columns that he published in different media.

Gregorich was born on August 3, 1938 in Zagreb, but soon moved to Buenos Aires, where he developed much of his career.

In his years in the world of culture, he directed collections of books such as Universal Chapter and Storytellers of Today (CEAL, 1968-73); He was director of Eudeba ; He directed the cultural supplement of the newspaper La Opinion (1975-79) and the weekly Argumento Político (1983-84).

He was also an editorialist and special editor of Clarín and columnist for the magazine Humor; Vice President of the El Libro Foundation and the Argentine Society of Writers (SADE) and integrated the Presidency Council of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights.

The last dictatorship did not stop his prolific production. During those years he published numerous articles that he gathered in his book Strategies of the Word, written under the dictatorship (1976-1983) edited by Eudeba.

In an interview with the magazine Ñ published in 2014, he said: "[...] I miss a more rational and not-so-facile journalism, which could deal with more serenity and respect for the problems that overwhelm us. And that could be freed a bit of media scandals and police dramas. "

Gregorich also had a step in public service, when in 1988 he served as Undersecretary of Culture during the government of Raúl Alfonsín. In those 80s he stood out as one of the intellectual referents of the return of democracy.

Among his essay books he published Tierra de nadi e (1981), Literature and homosexuality (1988), Writers of the future (1995) and The eccentricity of Borges and Perón (2007). In addition, he wrote the screenplay for the film The Lost Republic (1983).

He received multiple awards such as the Translation Award from the National Endowment for the Arts , in 1966; the First National Prize for Literary Criticism of Editorial Sudamericana , in 1976 and the Tribute Award for Journalism or, in 1983.

Source: clarin

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