Martín Kohan
ARGENTINA, 1967
HERRALDE NOVEL PRIZE 2007
He holds a BA and PhD in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, and is a professor of Literary Theory.
His literary work includes novels, short stories and essays, standing out for dealing with the Argentine reality and its recent history. Among his best-known novels are Ciencias morales (Moral Sciences, 2007), winner of the Herralde Novel Prize and adapted to film under the title La mirada invisible (The Invisible Gaze).
In recognition of his literary career, in 2023 he received the Grand Prize of Honor from the Argentine Society of Writers (SADE) and, in 2024, he was named "Outstanding Personality" in the field of culture of the City of Buenos Aires.
Martín Kohan's work has been translated into several languages, consolidating him as a very relevant figure in contemporary Argentine literature.
«Kohan has a gift for writing absolutely natural dialogue. His prose is light and elegant with a precisely calibrated rhythm. His words are measured and true. An impeccable writer.»
Ernesto Calabuig, El Mundo
«Hypnotic prose. A writer in complete command of his style and literary universe; a writer of unquestionable power.»Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico
«The prose of the Argentine writer Martín Kohan, especially in his most recent books, is one of clinical precision and cool distance. But each novel has an effect unto itself.»
Edmundo Paz Soldán
«A writer now safely berthed in the dock of talent.»Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
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By Martín Kohan
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Hello? A Requiem for the Telephone
ESSAY, 2022
These days, the telephone feels almost obsolete. It used to be the primary means by which people communicated, and that was its sole purpose, but now it has mutated (from ‘land...
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SHORT STORIES, 2021
The atmosphere of the stories featured in this collection is defined by a single phenomenon: the summer heat, which bears down oppressively on the villages and small towns where they're set,...
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NOVEL, 2020
A brutally gripping novel set during the Argentine dictatorship. Three stories come together to form a whole. In 1941, in a provincial town in Argentina, a girl confesses her first sexual...
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NOVEL, 2016
Fuera de lugar (Out of Place) takes place in different locations: the Andean foothills, the shore of the Rio de la Plata, the urban sprawl of Greater Buenos Aires, the Far East and a border. And...
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Tales of love in popular culture
ESSAY, 2015
"Emptying a song of its music seems very similar to the practice of oceanographers who measure tides through a series of calculations based on the supposition that there are seven moons. The...
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NOVEL, 2012
Martín Kohan's latest book is a surprising anti-novel; a contemporary take on Crime and Punishment with an ironic portrayal of murder and guilt. Mario Novoa, an Argentinian...
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NOVEL, 2010
In Unfinished Business a wretched person worthy of compassion, the daily portrait of a pitiful life, one solicitous of sympathy, and the gaze of a cruel and resentful narrator that has pity for...
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NON FICTION, 2007
Paris is without a doubt the central city in the critical work of Walter Benjamin. But it is also possible to displace the city and make it the vertex of a figure made up of three places: Berlin,...
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NOVEL, 2007
WINNER OF THE XXV HERRALDE NOVEL PRIZE Moral Sciences takes place in an elite and traditional school in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 1980s, during the final phase of the Argentine...
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NOVEL, 2006
This novel could hardly be called traditional. With masked irony it answers the question “Can society be changed?” Here the conventions and foolishness of the notion of progress...
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NOVEL, 2006
New York, 1923, the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo, called the Wild Bull of the Pampas, knocks out of the ring the American Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. In Buenos Aires, the match...
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NON FICTION, 2005
What aspects must a life contain, and how should that life be retold, for that person to become a revered national hero? This book is a critical study of the ways in which the canon of...
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NOVEL, 2002
This novel finds just the right voice and voices - including murmurs, reverberations and echoes - to conjure a specific period without self-pity, equivocation or compassion. This is no...
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