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Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer. ==Life and work== Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the ''La Nación'' newspaper, and he then was editor in chief of the magazine ''Primera Plana'' between 1962 and 1969. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels: ''La Novela de Perón'' (1985) and ''Santa Evita'' (1995).〔("Muere Tomás Eloy Martínez, el novelista de Perón y Evita" ) ''El Mundo'', accessed on 1 February 2010 〕 In 1970 he and many former writers of ''Primera Plana'' worked at the magazine ''Panorama'', where Martínez was the director. On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at Rawson, Chubut Province. ''Panorama'' was the only publication in Buenos Aires that reported the correct story of the affair in Rawson, which differed significantly from the official version of the ''de facto'' Argentine government. On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of Trelew where he reported the Massacre of Trelew in his book ''The Passion According to Trelew''. The book was banned by the Argentine dictatorship. For three years (1972-75) Martínez was in charge of the cultural supplement of La Nación, after which he lived in exile (1975-83) in Caracas, Venezuela, where he remained active as a journalist, co-founding the newspaper ''El Diario de Caracas''. In his book ''The Memoirs of the General'' he recounts that he was threatened by the "Triple A", the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, and on one occasion, gunmen held a pistol to the head of his three-year-old son because they were witnesses to a crime Martínez believed to be an operation led by the far-right paramilitary group. In 1991, he participated in the creation and launch of the daily newspaper ''Siglo 21'' (November 8, 1991), owned by businessman Alfonso Dau and published by Jorge Zepeda Patterson. in Guadalajara, Mexico, which went for seven years, until December 1998. Also, he created the literary supplement ''Primer Plano'' for the newspaper ''Página/12'' in Buenos Aires. Martínez has also been a teacher and lecturer. He taught (1984-87) at the University of Maryland. In 1995, he took a position as distinguished professor of (Spanish literature ) and director of the Latin American Studies program at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He wrote columns for ''La Nación'' and the ''New York Times'' syndicate, and his articles have appeared in many newspapers and journals in Latin America. He has published a number of books, one of which, ''Santa Evita'', has been translated into 32 languages and published in 50 countries. He was awarded the Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and won the 2002 Premio Alfaguara de Novela for the novel ''Flight of the Queen''. His works deal primarily (but not exclusively) with Argentina during and after the rule of Juan Domingo Perón and his wife, Eva Duarte de Perón (Evita).〔("Tango lessons" ) (Maya Jaggi interviews Tomás Eloy Martínez), ''The Guardian'', 3 February 2007.〕 Martínez died in Buenos Aires on 31 January 2010〔("Murió el escritor y periodista Tomás Eloy Martínez" ) ''Clarín'' 〕 after a long battle against a brain tumor.〔("Dolor por la muerte de Tomás Eloy Martínez" ), ''La Nación'' 〕 An exhaustive list of his works may be found in ''The Other Reality -- Anthology'' with a prologue by Cristine Mattos, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina, S.A.,2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tomás Eloy Martínez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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