Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

Who was Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill?

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, who normally went only by his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist. He was a distant relative of the novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan. Fogwill died on August 21, 2010, from a pulmonary dysfunction caused by his addiction to smoking.

Fogwill was born at Buenos Aires, and became a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He published a poetry book collection; he was an essayist, and a columnist specializing in communications subjects, literature, and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk", which received the first prize in a literary contest in 1980, compelled him to leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that led him to become a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. He is particularly notable for his short novel Los pichiciegos, translated as Malvinas Requiem. This was one of the very first narratives to deal with the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom, written from the point of view of the young Argentinian conscripts.