Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig was an Argentine novelist and screenwriter. Puig grew up in a village on the Argentine pampas before moving to Buenos Aires for high school. While there, he fell in love with movies and decided to pursue a career as a film director. He briefly attended the University of Buenos Aires before leaving for film school in Italy. He continued to work on screenplays as he traveled across Europe. He moved back to Argentina in the 1960s and published his first novel, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, in 1968. When the Argentine government become more far-right in the 1970s, the leftist Puig once again left his homeland, and he lived the rest of his life outside of Argentina. He died in Mexico in 1990.