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Bernardo Verbitsky (22 November 1907 – 15 March 1979) was an Argentine writer and journalist.

Bernardo Verbitsky
Bernardo Verbitsky

Biography


Verbitsky was born of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant parents (his surname Verbitsky means willow in Ukrainian). He was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo's Academy"). He reported Buenos Aires' ups and downs; his writings were linked to tango and other essential aspects of the city. Hugo del Carril based its 1958 motion picture Una cita con la vida ("A date with life" ) on Verbitsky's novel Calles de tango)

His 1957 novel Villa Miseria también es América (roughly "Povertyville is also [a part of] America") gave its popular name to Argentina's shanty towns (villas miseria).

Bernardo Verbitsky died in Buenos Aires on 15 March 1979.

Verbitsky is the father of journalist and activist Horacio Verbitsky.


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    Bernardo Verbitsky (Buenos Aires, 22 de noviembre de 1907 - 15 de marzo de 1979) fue un escritor y periodista argentino. Inventó la expresión villa miseria. Es el padre del periodista Horacio Verbitsky, quien se refirió a él en varios medios.[5][6]



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