Dalmiro Sáenz

Dalmiro Antonio Sáenz (June 13, 1926 – September 11, 2016) was an Argentinian writer and playwright

Dalmiro Antonio Saenz was born in Buenos Aires, in 1926. He began his literary activity early on, and began to publish by his 30’s, after he traveled during several seasons by ship through the Patagonia, he settled there for almost 15 years, where he developed his first storybook: "Seventy Times Seven," which won the prestigious award of Editorial Emecé, and became a bestseller, based in a vision that is violent, erotic, and with solid precepts and moral questions about religion. That is what would become the hallmark of Sáenz for several years. The critics agree in indicating that a religious axis always passes through the stories of this author; either through one of his characters, or as in "Christ Pie", where religiosity is in controversy with the established religion, as opposed to the individual dialogue that the character have with God). Later on, he participated in the screenplay adaptation for the big screen of the two stories in "Seventy Times Seven", that were joined to assemble the frame for the homonymous film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilson (1962)

After this onset, Sáenz won the Award of Life magazine in Spanish, in 1963, with his storybook "No".

The same year, he won the award Argentores by the Sociedad Argentina de Autores with "Thirty Thirty", a tale raised in the manner of an American western, but located in Patagonia.

In 1964 he published in the Editorial Emecé "The Necessary Sin", a novel that was later adapted to create the script for the film version, called "Nobody heard Cecilio Fuentes scream " directed by Fernando Siro, and winner of the Silver Shell (Concha de Plata) in the International Film Festival of San Sebastian, Spain (1965). Then he began to write plays and very soon he was awarded the prize “Casa de las Américas”, in Cuba in 1966, with "Hip Hip Ufa", published by Editorial Emecé, and was adapted to create the script for the film version with the title "Ufa with sex" under the direction of Rodolfo Kuhn -1972. Then he worked again in its adaptation with Pablo Silva, for the well known play "Sex, Lies and Money" (Bs As. 2002/3).

According to his statements, Sáenz took literary vacations between books by writing small books of humor, which were very successful. Among them stands out "I Also Was A Spermatozoid" published by the editorial Torres Agüero. Then began an intimate and detailed description of the feminine universe, with a vision that is surprising and original, and promptly became a bestseller titled "Open Letter To My Future Ex-wife" published by editorial Emecé in 1968, and re-edited several times, until the last version in 1999. Saenz is an author who is able to capture the essence of the feminine sensibility, characters that he treats with a great deal of tenderness.

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