Carlos Gorostiza
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| Born | Carlos Gorostiza Rodríguez June 7, 1920 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | July 19, 2016 (aged 96) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Playwright, theatre director, novelist |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Years active | 1943–2016 |
Carlos Gorostiza Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾloz ɣoɾosˈtisa roˈðɾiɣes]; June 7, 1920 – July 19, 2016) was an Argentine playwright, theatre director, and novelist. His seminal work El puente debuted in 1949 and he garnered numerous awards for his proceeding works. He later was Secretary of Culture between 1983 and 1986.
Carlos Gorostiza was born to Basque Argentine parents in the upscale Buenos Aires borough of Palermo. He and an older brother enjoyed a happy early childhood until, in 1926, their father, Fermín Gorostiza (among the first Argentines to receive a pilot's licence) abandoned the family. Mrs. Gorostiza (née Rodríguez), who took up employment with a clothing designer, and her two sons, who entered the labour force as children, gradually recovered from the setback and, in 1931, she remarried and had a daughter, María Esther, who went on to become a moderately successful actress under the pseudonym Analía Gadé.
Gorostiza's stepfather, a playwright born in Spain, introduced Carlos to the theatre and in 1943, he debuted his first work, a puppet show titled La clave encantada (The enchanted key). The show's draw allowed him to open a puppet theatre, La Estrella Grande (Big star) and he began frequenting the Máscara (Mask) Theatre, where he began a successful run as Creon in their productions of the classic Greek tragedy, Antigone. Encouraged by friends, he presented his first play at the Máscara Theatre in 1949, El puente (The bridge). Capturing the tension between different social classes in Buenos Aires, the realist El puente drew partly on his own childhood experiences with his mother's fallen social status and secured his reputation in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene. Produced in a professional version by director Armando Discépolo at the prestigious Argentine Theatre, El puente was adapted into a film version under Gorostiza's direction in 1950.
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