Mario Trejo

Mario Trejo (13 January 1926 – 14 May 2012) was an Argentine poet, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.

Biography Mario César Trejo was born on January 13, 1926, though there is disagreement on his birth city; some sources indicate the city of Buenos Aires, while others La Plata; yet, Jorge Ariel Madrazo states in his prologue written for Trejo's poem entitled Orgasm (Orgasmo) that "Mario Trejo declares, otherwise, being born in Tierra del Fuego, in Comodoro Rivadavia, or in many other locations: everything indicates that this happened in the southern part of the country, but he does not specify in which year (Trejo agrees with Marcel Duchamp in that such precisions "only serve the fools and Spanish literature professors." He collaborated with several Argentine literary journals such as Contemporánea (1949), Luz y sombra (1948), Cinedrama, revista de cine y teatro contemporáneos (1953), Ciclo y Conjugación de Buenos Aires,

Works Poetry Celdas de la sangre (1946) El uso de la palabra (1964) La pena capital (1980) Orgasmo y otros poemas (1989) Playwright No hay piedad para Hamlet (No Mercy for Hamlet, 1954), in collaboration with Alberto Vanasco, Buenos Aires Municipal Award, 1957, and Florencio Sánchez National Award, 1960. Libertad y otras intoxicaciones (1968) Libertad, Libertad, Libertad (1968) La reconstrucción de la Ópera de Viena (1968) La guerra civil (1973) Screenplays El final (1964) Desarraigo (1965) Infinito futuro/Kill me future (1965), in collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci; however, the screenplay that was never shot. Song lyrics Los pájaros perdidos (1973), music by Ástor Piazzolla. La tristeza y el mar, music by Waldo de los Ríos.