Jean manuel puig biography
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Manuel Puig, Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, was born on December 28, 1932 in General Villegas Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He was a writer, playwright and actor. He studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and screenwriting in Italy. He traveled in Europe doing odd jobs. In the 1960's he returned to Argentine where he penned his first major novel, "La traición de Rita Hayworth". Being a left wing symphatizer in a very conservative Argentine, Puig considered it necessary to move and in 1973 he chose Mexico City for his new home. Four of his novels has been filmed. Best known are "El beso de la mujer araña" (1985)," Boquitas pintadas" (1974) and "Pubis Angelical" (1982). He experienced a tremendous success with the novel "El beso de la mujer araña" (Kiss of the Spider Woman), published in 1976. Later in the early 1980's he rewrote the story and turned it into a play as well as a screenplay. He die
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Manuel Puig
Argentine writer (1932–1990)
This article is about the Argentine author. For other uses, see Puig (disambiguation). For the Cuban rower, see Manuel Puig (rower).
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990), commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición dem Rita Hayworth (Betrayed bygd Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintadas (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso dem la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed bygd the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a huvudgata musical in 1993.
Early life, education and early career
[edit]Puig was born in General Villegas, Buenos Aires Province. Since there was no high school in General Villegas, his parents sent him to Buenos Aires in 1946. Pu
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Manuel Puig Biography
Juan Manuel Puig is the Argentinian author whose best-known novel is Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña, 1976). Manuel Puig’s stories were infused with sexuality and his love of Hollywood movies, which had been his escape from a boyhood in rural Argentina where he was scorned and even assaulted for dressing up in girls’ clothing. He studied filmmaking in Europe and tried his hand at screenwriting during the 1960s, then published a mostly-autobiographical novel in 1968, La traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth). Censored in Argentina, the book was a minor hit in France and the U.S. Manuel Puig’s next book, Heartbreak Tango: A Serial (English translation, 1973), was well-received, but Puig’s real celebrity stems from the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman (English translation 1979). The 1985 Hollywood film based on the book starred William Hurt and Raul Julia. Puig spent most of his ca