Background
Haroldo Conti was born on May 25, 1925, in Chacabuco, Argentina. He was the son of a shopkeeper and provincial leader, Petronila Lombardi and Pedro Conti.
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Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for. Echoes of John Berger sound throughout the evocative prose of this great Argentinan writer. A twentieth-century classic, Southeaster is a central work in Haroldo Conti’s oeuvre.
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1962
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1966
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Haroldo Conti was born on May 25, 1925, in Chacabuco, Argentina. He was the son of a shopkeeper and provincial leader, Petronila Lombardi and Pedro Conti.
Conti attended Seminario de los Salesianos and Colegio Metropolitano Conciliar. He also studied philosophy and letters at a university.
In 1962, Conti published his first novel Sudeste ("South-East"), which won the Fabril Prize and appeared on the Primera Plana best-sellers list in 1963.
Between 1967 and 1976, he taught Latin at Liceo Nacional Nº 7 in Buenos Aires. In the early 1970s, he traveled to Cuba as a jury member for the Casa de las Américas. He continued to win prizes and awards for his work and in 1975 his final novel Mascaró, el cazador americano ("Mascaró, the American hunter") won the Casa de las Américas Prize.
Conti was warned by a serving officer at the time of the military coup in March 1976 that his name was included on a list of "subversive agents". He was arrested at his apartment at Fitz Roy street 1205, Buenos Aires on May 5. In 1979, the ministry of education sent a letter claiming that Conti had retired in order to "carry out various tasks".
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1962In 1955, Conti married Dora Campos and together they had two children: Alejandra and Marcelo. Later, he lived with Marta Acuña (also Scavac). They had a son, Ernesto, in early 1976.
