Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls (born 1959) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter.
Alan Pauls

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- Name
- Alan Pauls
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- University of Buenos Aires
- Awards
- Premio Herralde (2003)
- Born
- 1959
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Key facts
• Name — Alan Pauls • Birthplace — Buenos Aires, Argentina • Occupation — Writer • Education — University of Buenos Aires • Awards — Premio Herralde (2003)
Early life
Early life
Pauls was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959. He studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires.
Career
Career
An early essay by Pauls on Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Although he has expressed skepticism about the avant-garde as any form of program, preferring to see it as a "toolbox." Among his own experimental works is Wasabi from 1994. He also had a longstanding interest in film and his later work El pasado was adapted to film in 2007. He wrote a "History of" trilogy with the titles being History of crying, History of hair, and History of money.
Academia
Academia
Pauls has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is also a professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
Essays
Essays
• Year — Title • 1986 — Manuel Puig. La traición de Rita Hayworth • 1995 — Lino Palacio. La infancia de la risa • 1996 — Cómo se escribe. El diario íntimo • 1996 — El factor Borges • 2006 — La vida descalzo • 2012 — Temas lentos • 2019 — Trance
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Role • 1983 — Los enemigos — Scriptwriter • 1986 — La era del ñandú — Scriptwriter • 1988 — Sinfín — Scriptwriter • 1995 — El censor — Scriptwriter • 2001 — Private Lives — Scriptwriter • 2003 — The Blonds — Scriptwriter • 2004 — Imposible — Scriptwriter • 2005 — Alan Pauls. Conversaciones con Daniel Guebel — Scriptwriter • 2006 — Arizona sur — Scriptwriter • 2007 — ¿De quién es el portaligas? — Actor • 2011 — La vida nueva — Actor • 2011 — Medianeras — Actor • 2012 — Cassandra — Actor
Life and career
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Life and career
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1959
Alan Pauls born at Buenos Aires.
Books
• Year — Title • 1984 — El pudor del pornógrafo • 1990 — El coloquio • 1994 — Wasabi • 2003 — El pasado • 2007 — Historia del llanto • 2010 — Historia del pelo • 2013 — Historia del dinero • 2013 — Noche en Opwijk • 2019 — Trance: Un glosario
Awards and fellowships
• Year — Title • 2003 — Herralde Award • 2013 — Santa Maddalena Foundation • 2014 — Konex Award • 2019-2020 — DAAD Artists in Berlin Program
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Nuestro equipo. Fuentetaja.
- 2.Bloomsbury Publishing. The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolano and After. 360–362. 26 September 2013. 978-1-4411-4245-0.
- 3.Fernández, Daniela. Conversation with Alan Pauls at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Radio Lacan.
- 4.Lequai Angers.
- 5.Alan Pauls. Santa Maddalena Foundation. 2019-06-08.
- 6.Factory, Troop Software. Alan Pauls Fundación Konex. www.fundacionkonex.org.
- 7.DAAD MEETS HAFEN LESUNG. NACHTASYL Hamburg.
- 8.Arroyo Cantón, Carlos. Lengua castellana y Literatura. Oxford University Press. 407. 2012. 9788467367966.
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