Santiago Kovadloff

Background

He was born in Buenos Aires where he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires with a thesis on the thought of Martin Buber called "The hearer of God".

Education

University of Buenos Aires.

Career

Some of his works were translated into Hebrew, Portuguese, German, Italian and French and others have spread throughout Spain. Honorary professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales(UCES). He works professionally as a philosophy professor and lecturer.

Is permanent collaborator of the newspaper Louisiana Nacion.

Besides, he lined up a trio of music and poetry with Marcelo Moguilevsky and César Lerner. He edited the first complete Spanish version of Book of Disquiet (2000), Fernando Pessoa, and the Fictions Interlude Gaza Honor in and Essay by Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (1986 and 1987).

Achievements

• Gaza Honor in Poetry and Essay by Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (1986 and 1987). First National Prize Literature Test "Common Presence" of Bogotá. (1991). First National Prize for Literature of Argentina, and essayist (1992). Platinum Konex, literary essay category. (1994). Reader Emeritus of the National Library of Argentina (1995). Prize Esteban Echeverría given by the group People of Letters for his work as an essayist. (1997). First Prize for Poetry of the City of Buenos Aires (2000). Platinum Konex, philosophical essay category. (2004). Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires (2009) Award of Honor Pen awarded by the Academy of Journalism Argentina, for the task that develops in print.

Works

• book

  • Natalia y Los Queluces (Spanish Edition)

Membership

Since 1992 a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, since 1998 member of the Academia Argentina de Letras since 2010 by the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and the National Academy of Journalism. Member of the Court of Ethics of the Jewish Community of Argentina until dissolved.