“Journalism and Literature” Dra. Patricia Nigro Facultad de Comunicación 2011

Journalism and Literature JOURNALISMLITERATURE Non fiction.Fiction. It pretends to be “objective”.It can be “subjective”. Mass information.Art for a few people. Different sources.One author but there can be several narrators. Clear, precise message.Ambiguous, metaphorical message. Actual characters.Created characters. It deals with “hot”, current events. (Carpentier) It deals with “cold”, past events. It tries to grasp the interest of the reader.

Journalism and Literature JOURNALISMLITERATURE The technique is informative.The technique is esthetic. It can use literature means of style and narrative techniques but always to tell the truth. It uses means of style and narrative techniques to create a new world of joy, of sadness, of human values. The journalist chooses a point of view. The writer may choose many points of views, he does not need to be commited to any ideology. The journalist works for a newspaper that has an ideology. The writer may have to make some concessions to his editors if he wants his book published.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ( ) El Zonda (San Juan, Argentina). El Mercurio (Chile). President of la Argentina ( ). Latin America’ s teacher.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Bartolomé Mitre ( ) Founder of La Nación, one of Latin America’s leading newspapers. President of la Argentina ( ). His most important works are Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina (1902) and Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana (1907).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina José Hernández ( ) La Reforma Pacífica (Buenos Aires). El Argentino (Paraná, Entre Ríos). El Eco de Corrientes (Corrientes). La Capital (Rosario, Santa Fe). El Río de la Plata. La Patria (Montevideo, Uruguay). Author of El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) and La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Miguel Cané ( ) Politician, lawyer and academic. His most important book is Juvenilia (1884). Provincial and national representative, diplomat in Colombia, Venezuela and France.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Leopoldo Lugones ( ) La Montaña (Córdoba). La Nación (Buenos Aires). His most important novel is La guerra gaucha (1905). He is also a great poet. His finest book of poems is Romances del Río Seco (1938).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Ricardo Rojas ( ) Rector of the University of Buenos Aires ( ). He created the Institute of Literatura Argentina at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the first one to write a history of argentine literatura (Historia de la literatura argentina, ).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Jorge Luis Borges ( ) Professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires ( ). Director of National Library ( ). He won The Cervantes Prize (1983). Many honorary phds. Revista Multicolor de los Sábados (Crítica). Revista El Hogar. Revista Sur. La Nación. Clarín.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Roberto Arlt ( ) His most important novels are Los siete locos (1929) and Los lanzallamas (1931). Crítica. El Mundo. Aguasfuertes porteñas (1933)y Aguasfuertes españolas (1936).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Eduardo Mallea ( ) Diplomat and writer. Editor of the literary magazine of La Nación. His most important works are the novel La bahía del silencio (1940) and the essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Marco Denevi ( ) His most important novel is Rosaura a las diez (1955) La Nación. Clarín. He dedicated to political journalism.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Rodolfo Walsh ( ) His most important work is Operación Masacre (1957), an investigation on the assassination of opposition figures during the military goverment of President Aramburu. He founded the Prensa Latina Agency in Cuba (1960). In 1973, he joined the “montoneros”, a radical group and he was killed in He is now a “desaparecido” (missing person).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Tomás Eloy Martínez ( ) Film critic for La Nación. Primera Plana and Panorama: political magazines. Página 12. He was a teacher at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Columnist for The New York Times and La Nación. His most important novels are La novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina Osvaldo Soriano ( ) La Opinión. (de Jacobo Timerman) Sports journalist. He wrote “El caso Robledo Puch” (1972) and he became famous as a writer, the article was included in Artistas, locos y criminales (1983). Página 12. One of his famous novels is Triste, solitario y final (1973), the story of Stan Laurel.

José Hernández: journalist He wrote for many neswsparpers, some of them were founded by himself. He was a militar, a politician, a journalist and a writer. He only lived 52 years and he was persecuted for his ideas by President Sarmiento’s goverment. He never received payment for his job as a journalist, he was an idealistic man who always defended his beliefs which seemed best for him at that moment.

José Hernández: journalist Hernández wanted the best for his country and he was very worried by the critical situation of the gauchos and the indians. He was problably one of the solitary voices that raised to speak for the speechless. Althoug he made political journalism, he was never offensive with his contenders. That was very unususual at that time. But he never showed any weakness to fight for his beliefs.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist In 1933, he gained an editorial appointment at the literary supplement Crítica. He wrote essays, literary forgeries, made translations of famous works, and served as a literary adviser. He wrote weekly columns for the female magazine El Hogar, which was published from 1936 to 1939.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist In 1937, he worked as a librarian in the Miguel Cané Municipal Library, where he had a lot of time to write and read. For some years, he kept on writing articles, essays, poems in different newspapers and magazines. He did received payment for his job. In fact, he needed it. Finally, he suffered political persecution from Perón’s administration and he began to work as a lecturer.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist