by Manuel Puig

Born December 28, 1932, in General Villegas, a town in the province of Buenos Aires, Manuel Puig Delledonne developed an early love of storytelling when his mother began taking him to the movies at the age of four. Twenty years later, after attending the school of architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, Puig was awarded a scholarship to study filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Discovering that he was not temperamentally suited for the occupation, Puig began to write film scripts while dividing his time between Europe and New York. He moved back to Argentina in 1967 and turned some of these screenwriting attempts into his initial pieces of literary fiction. In 1968 he published his first novel, The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth, which launched him onto the international literary scene. Betrayal was followed by Heartbreak Tango...