1. Mempo Giardinelli was born on August 2,1947 and is an Argentine novelist and academic, author of numerous books, including novels, essay collections, and short story collections.
10 Facts About Mempo Giardinelli
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Mempo Giardinelli enrolled at the National University of the Northeast, in neighboring Corrientes, in 1964.
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Mempo Giardinelli enrolled in Law School, but left his law studies in 1969 to pursue writing and journalism.
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Mempo Giardinelli became the first foreign writer to win Mexico's National Novelists' Prize in 1983 for his thriller, Luna Caliente.
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Mempo Giardinelli founded a literary review, Puro Cuento, in 1986, and edited the review until its closure in 1992.
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Mempo Giardinelli won the 1993 Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Santo Oficio de la Memoria.
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Mempo Giardinelli taught journalism in a number of universities, including the National University of La Plata, the National University of the Northeast, and as visiting professor at among others the University of Virginia and the University of California, San Diego.
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Mempo Giardinelli served in the advisory councils of both the Ministry of Education's Reading Promotion Plan and Transparency International.
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Mempo Giardinelli was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Poitiers in 2007.
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Mempo Giardinelli relocated to his native Resistencia in 1995, where he established a foundation in his name in 1996 with 10,000 volumes donated from his personal library.