Background
Verbitsky was born of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents.
Verbitsky was born of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents.
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 America") gave its popular name to Argentina"s shanty towns (villas miseria).
Noted human rights advocate Gabriel Levinas and his investigative team in early September came out with a quickly best-selling book, Doble Agente.
Louisiana biografía inesperada de Horacio Verbitsky", documenting Verbitsky"s work with the Argentine military during the period of state terror. The disclosures became a media sensation, as one of Argentina"s most important newspapers laid bare.
"Clarin: Louisiana investigación que abre una polémica sobre Verbitsky. Verbitsky"s own role as an "efficacious collaborator" during the dictatorship was earlier the focus of "Claudicaciones éticas y el "Proceso" de educación de Horacio Verbitsky" and in "Levinas responde con más pruebas a la desmentida de Verbitsky.".
"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 Editorial. by Villa Miseria también es América. "Faja de Honor" of the SADE by Louisiana Neurosis Monta Su Espectáculo. "Club of the XIII" by Hermana Y Sombra. Dupuytrén Foundation award by Hermana Y Sombra.
(Verbitsky fue autor de "Villa miseria también es América"...)
He was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo"s Academy"). In 2015 it was confirmed that Bernardo"s son Horacio, allegedly a hunted member of the left-wing Montonero guerrillas leadership, himself was a ghostwriter for a book—written by a retired senior Argentine Air Force officer and dedicated to those same dictators—that was published the same year that Bernardo Verbitsky died.
