About Bernardo Verbitsky
Lived 1907 – 1979 (aged 71). Bernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine journalist, writer and poet.
Bernardo Verbitsky (22 November 1907 – 15 March 1979) was an Argentine writer and journalist.
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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Argentine writer (1907-1979)
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Bernardo Verbitsky was born on 22 November 1907 in Buenos Aires.
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Bernardo Verbitsky died on 15 March 1979 in Buenos Aires.
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Bernardo Verbitsky was a journalist, writer and poet.
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Bernardo Verbitsky was Argentine.
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