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General Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990) was an Argentine author, commonly called Manuel Puig. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth(Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintados (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the…
Known for
- Regreso a Coronel Vallejos — Self - Writer (archive footage)2018
- Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman — Self2008
- The Last Supper1976
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-12-28 ) December 28, 1932, General Villegas , Argentina
- Died
- July 22, 1990 (1990-07-22) (aged 57), Cuernavaca , Mexico
- Occupation
- Novelist , screenwriter
- Period
- 1968-1990
- Literary movement
- Postboom , Post-modernist
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Family name
- Puig
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- General Villegas
- Place of death
- Cuernavaca
- Educated at
- University of Buenos Aires
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Field of work
- sexual minority
- Image
- Manuel Puig, 1979.jpg
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- Manuel Puig
- date of birth
- 1932-12-28
- date of death
- 1990-07-22
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- birth name
- Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
- pseudonym
- Manuel Puig
- writing language
- Spanish
- different from
- Manuel Puig
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990), commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintadas (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
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