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Also known as Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne

Argentine writer (1932-1990)

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Manuel Puig was an author who lived from December 28, 1932, to July 22, 1990. He is identified as a person in music databases and has a pseudonym listed as "Manuel Puig." His literary output includes works such as *El beso de la mujer araña*, *Le baiser de la femme-araignée*, *La traicion de rita hayworth/ The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)*, *Le Braiser De La Femme-Araigne*, and *Álbum Puig*.

Records indicate that Puig has 110 works associated with his name in library catalogs, while another source lists a count of five works. He is referenced by 113 other encyclopedia articles. Music platform data shows one listener and one playcount for the name Manuel Puig.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
28 Dec 1932
Died
22 Jul 1990
Works
110

Top works

  • Álbum Puig
  • Le Braiser De La Femme-Araigne
  • El beso de la mujer araña
  • Le baiser de la femme-araignée
  • La traicion de rita hayworth/ The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Manuel+Puig">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Manuel Puig

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

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Manuel
Family name
Puig
Gender
male
Citizenship
Argentina
Place of birth
General Villegas
Place of death
Cuernavaca
Languages spoken
Spanish
Field of work
sexual minority
Image
Manuel Puig, 1979.jpg
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Commons category
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
Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

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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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