Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher (Avellaneda, 25 December 1949 – São Paulo, 26 November 1992) was an Argentine poet and anthropologist.
He graduated and completed his degree in sociology; he moved to São Paulo, where he graduated from the University of Campinas with a Master of Social Anthropology; where he was appointed professor in 1985.
His work appeared in the El Porteño, Alfonsina, Last Kingdom and Poetry Journal. He was active in the Frente de Liberación Homosexual. He died of AIDS in São Paulo.
Awards 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Works Austria-Hungría (Buenos Aires, Tierra Baldía, 1980). Alambres (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1987; Premio "Boris Vian" de Literatura Argentina). Hule (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1989) . Parque Lezama (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1990). Aguas aéreas (Buenos Aires, Último Reino, 1990). El chorreo de las iluminaciones (Caracas, Pequeña Venecia, 1992). Poemas completos: 1980-1992, Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1997; Grupo Editorial Planeta S.A.I.C./Seix Barral, 2003, .
Non-fiction Prosa plebeya, Editors Christian Ferrer, Osvaldo Baigorria, Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1997, . Papeles insumisos, Editor Reynaldo Jiménez, Santiago Arcos, 2004, . El negocio del deseo: la prostitución masculina en San Pablo, Paidós, 1999, . La prostitución masculina, Ediciones de la Urraca, 1993, . El Fantasma del SIDA, Puntosur, 1988.
References
Sources Néstor Perlongher: the poetic search for an Argentine marginal voice, Ben Bollig, University of Wales Press, 2008, . Bollig, Ben "Nestor Perlongher and the Avant-Garde: Privileged Interlocuters and Inherited Techniques", Hispanic Review - Volume 73, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 157–184. The art of transition: Latin American culture and neoliberal crisis, Francine Masiello, Duke University Press, 2001, .
External links Materials about Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher in the Néstor Perlongher Letters to Martha "Beba" Eguía and Ricardo Piglia held by Princeton University Library Special Collections