Sergio Olguín

Sergio Olguín is an Argentinean author, journalist and literary critic born on 29 January 1967 in Buenos Aires. Whereas most of the novels that he has published to date can be categorised as youth literature, he has also published stories and novels that do not fall in this category.

He grew up in a middle class suburb of Buenos Aires called Lanús and studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires.

In 1983 he won the First Prize of the Short Story Competition organized by the magazine Humor & Juegos.

He begon his journalistic activity in 1984. Throughout his career, he has published articles in newspapers such as Página/12, La Nación, El País (Montevideo) and La Capital and the magazines trespuntos, Playboy, La Maga, Noticias, Film, Karavan (Stockholm) and other media. Until 1989, he worked as editor of the magazine Famiglia Cristiana, the publication of the Congregation of the Daughters of St Paul.

In 1989 he was the joint winner of the First Prize in the poetry category at the Primera Bienal de Arte Joven (First Biennial of Youth Art) of the City of Buenos Aires. He also obtained a special mention in the story category. The next year he founded the cultural magazine V de Vian, which he managed until 2000. The magazine set out to shock the establishment and always carried a picture of a nude woman on its cover. The Argentina Book Chamber awarded this magazine the Julio Cortázar Prize for alternative media in 1998.

He was co-author of the play "Imakinaria" that premiered in Cemento in 1990. The play was also staged at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas of the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. In the same year he was a founding member of the magazine El amante cine, that he directed until 1992.

From 1992 until 1998, he was responsible for the Books section of the magazine Página/30. He was also coordinator for the literature segment of the cultural event Desde el Borde, organized by the Fundación Banco Patricios in 1993.

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