| LC control no. | n 80106911 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ7798.33.A4 |
| Personal name heading | Walsh, Rodolfo J. |
| Variant(s) | Walsh, R. J. (Rodolfo J.) Walsh Gill, Rodolfo Jorge Gill, Rodolfo Jorge Walsh |
| Associated place | Havana (Cuba) |
| Birth date | 1927-01-09 |
| Death date | 1977-03-25 |
| Place of birth | Choele Choel (Argentina) |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| Field of activity | Short stories, Argentina |
| Affiliation | Prensa Latina Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas (Argentina) Peronismo de Base (Organization : Argentina) Organización Montoneros (Argentina) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Playwrights |
| Found in | His Operación masacre, 1957. His Obra literaria completa, 1981: t.p. (Rodolfo Walsh) p. 4 of cover (1927-1977) Society for Irish Latin American Studies website, June 24, 2021: (Rodolfo Jorge Walsh; born 1927 in Choele-Choel, province of Río Negro; journalist; novelist; third son of Miguel Esteban Walsh (1894-1947) and his wife, Dora Gill; attended school in Moreno; worked for the agency Prensa Latina in Cuba (1959-1961); back in Buenos Aires, he wrote for Panorama, La Opinión, and Confirmado; his political activity led him to the hard-line Montoneros group, where he acted as intelligence officer and played a key role in the bombing of the cafeteria at the police headquarters on July 2, 1976; on the first anniversary of Jorge Rafael Videla's dictatorship (March 24, 1977), he committed the unforgivable crime of accusing the dictatorship in an open letter considered by Gabriel García Márquez to be one of the jewels of universal literature; the day after Walsh decried these atrocities, he was murdered in broad daylight in downtown Buenos Aires by a military death squad whose instructions were to capture him alive, but had to kill him when he pulled a gun to return their fire; his dead body was dumped into the trunk of a car, taken to the notorious Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), gloated over, desecrated and never seen again; author of Diez cuentos policiales (1953), Cuentos para tahúres, Variaciones en rojo (1953), Antología del cuento extraño (1956), Operación Masacre (1957), Secuencia Final, the plays La granada and La batalla (1965), Los oficios terrestres (1965), Un kilo de oro (1967), ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (1969), Un oscuro día de justicia (1973), and El caso Satanovsky (1973)) <https://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_walshr.htm> Parque de la Memoria (Argentina) website, June 24, 2021: (Rodolfo Jorge Walsh Gill; Rodolfo Jorge Walsh; born January 9, 1927 in Choele Choel, Rio Negro; kidnapped March 25, 1977 in Buenos Aires; journalist affiliated with Ancla and Prensa Latina; affiliated with the Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas (FAP), Peronismo de Base (PB), and the Montoneros) <http://basededatos.parquedelamemoria.org.ar/registros/8462/> |
| Associated language | spa |
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