Background
Marcos Aguinis was born in Cordoba, Argentina on January 13, 1935. He is a writer who has gone through extensive training in international literature, medicine, psychoanalysis, art and history. He said: "I have traveled the world, but I've also traveled to various professions ".
He published his first book in 1963 and since then he has published eleven novels, sixteen books of essays, four books of short stories and two biographies that create excitement and controversy.
In recent years all his titles became best-sellers.
Aguinis is followed by thousands of fans who recommend, discuss and collect his works.
He has written articles on a wide range of topics in newspapers and magazines in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe. He has given hundreds of lectures and courses in educational, artistic, scientific and policy in Germany, Spain, USA, France, Israel, Russia, Italy and almost all Latin American countries. When democracy was restored in Argentina in December 1983, Marcos Aguinis was appointed undersecretary and then secretary of culture of the nation drove the famous "cultural spring" that animated the country. He created the PRONDEC (National Program for the Democratization of Culture), which won the support of UNESCO and United Nations, and launched intense participatory activities to raise awareness among individuals about the rights, duties and potentialities that are grown on a real democracy. For his work was nominated for UNESCO’s Peace Education Prize.
In the field of human rights faced controversial issues that put his life at risk. The last dictatorship in Argentina limited the circulation of his books and some books were taken into the country clandestinely.
Countless readers admire his prophetic vision of the Arab-Israeli tensions within the Catholic Church, authoritarianism and the resurgence of ethnic and religious fundamentalism. Marcos Aguinis, has received, among others, the Premio Planeta (Spain), Fernando Jeno Award (Mexico), Meritorious Award for Culture of the Academy of Arts and Communication Sciences, National Award for Sociology, Sea Wolf Prize, National Book Award, Argentina Society of Writers Honor Award, Pranavananda Swami Award, the Annual Silver Plaque EFE Agency for his contribution to the strengthening of Latin American culture and language, Esteban Echeverría Award (Free People), J. Award B. Alberdi (Hispanic American Center for Economic Research) and was appointed by France Chevalier of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Tel Aviv University (2002), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010) and the University of San Luis (2000). In 1995 Argentina's Writers Society conferred on him the Grand Prize of Honor for his work.
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