Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec (28 November 1956[1] – 2 April 2022[2]) was an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. Chejfec published eighteen books, including novels, essays, short stories, and a poetry collection. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He most recently lived in New York City and held the position of Distinguished Writer in Residence in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.

Sergio Chejfec
Born(1956-11-28)28 November 1956
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died2 April 2022(2022-04-02) (aged 65)
New York, New York, United States
OccupationWriter

His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he found flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot with reflection. Memory, political violence, and Jewish-Argentine culture and history are some of the recurring themes in his work.

Chejfec's installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2017, "Dissemination of a Novel,"[3] was based on his novel, Baroni, a Journey.

Chejfec died in New York City on 2 April 2022, at the age of 65.[4]

Awards and honors

Bibliography
  • Lenta biografía. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.
  • Moral. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.
  • El aire. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1992.
  • Cinco. Saint-Nazaire (France): M.E.E.T., 1996.
  • El llamado de la especie. Rosario (Argentina): Beatriz Viterbo, 1997.
  • Los planetas. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999.
  • Boca de lobo. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2000.
  • Tres poemas y una merced, in Diario de Poesía 62 (2002), Buenos Aires.
  • Gallos y huesos. Buenos Aires: Santiago Arcos, 2003.
  • Los incompletos. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2004.
  • El punto vacilante. Buenos Aires: Norma, 2005.
  • Baroni: un viaje. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2007.
  • Mis dos mundos. Barcelona: Candaya, 2008.
  • Sobre Giannuzzi. Buenos Aires: bajo la luna, 2010.
  • La experiencia dramática. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2012.
  • Hacia la ciudad eléctrica. La Plata, Argentina: El Broche, 2012.
  • Modo linterna. Buenos Aires: Editorial Entropía, 2013.
  • Últimas noticias de la escritura Buenos Aires: Editorial Entropía, 2015.
  • Teoría del ascensor España: Jekyll and Jill, 2016.
  • El visitante. Buenos Aires: Editorial Excursiones, 2017.
  • 5, Jekyll and Jill, 2019.

English translations

References
  1. "Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 1999.
  2. "Murió Sergio Chejfec, el escritor que pensaba el mundo como "una construcción verbal"".
  3. "The art of more: Kochi-Muziris Biennale carries forward theme of huge spaces, from a novel painted across walls of the town to artificial lakes". The Financial Express. 18 December 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. "Clarin". 2 April 2022.
  5. "My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec 2013 Nominee". Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. Chad W. Post (10 April 2013). "2013 Best Translated Book Award: The Fiction Finalists". Three Percent. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
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