The Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky died on Sunday at the age of 85. and his remains were laid to rest at the National Library in Buenos Aires, relatives reported.
“Edgardo Cozarinsky died, and it is as if many people died with him. He was a writer, filmmaker, playwright, actor, milonguero, an intelligent, kind and talented guy,” the Argentine writer Pedro Mairal wrote on his X account.
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In his youth, Cozarinsky collaborated in the magazine Sur, where he became friends with the writers Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and met Jorge Luis Borges.
As a writer, Edgardo Cozarinsky published more than twenty works, including novels, essays and short story books, Some of them are “The Bride of Odessa”, “Lejos de donde”, “Urban Voodoo” (with a prologue by Susan Sontag and Guillermo Cabrera Infante) and “In the last drink we leave”, which won him the V Premio Hispanoamericano de Story Gabriel García Márquez in 2018.
In 1974, Edgardo Cozarinsky He settled in France, where he dedicated himself to cinema. He directed documentaries about figures such as Ernst Jünger and Stefan Zweig and fiction films such as “Night Watch.”
Edgardo Cozarinsky He returned to Argentina in 1989 and from that moment on he dedicated himself to his passion for tango, of which he was a fervent dancer, which led to the publication of his book “Milongas” in 2007.
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