Oreste Edmundo Pereyra

Oreste Edmundo Pereyra (22 October 1933 – 2 October 2019) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet and teacher. He wrote many fictional books as well as educational manuals of great importance in his country.

Career

Oreste Pereyra was born in La Banda, Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina, on October 22, 1933. He graduated as Normal Teacher at the José B. Gorostiaga Normal School and then as Philosophy and Pedagogy teacher, working in schools in his province until ascending as Vice-Rector of the School No. 677 José de San Martín. Likewise, he was part of the Disciplinary Court of the General Council of Education as a member and then president, he created the Teacher Improvement School, he was sub-Secretary of Municipal Education and Culture of La Banda, and he served as a professor of secondary and tertiary level, and ad-honorem at the "Mariano Moreno" School of Journalism.

On October 2, 2019, at the age of 85, he died in his hometown due to complications in his health, with several tributes dedicated in his memory.