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Hugo Wast
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Gustavo Adolfo Martnez Zuvira (October 23, 1883 March 28, 1962), best known under his pseudonym Hugo Wast, was a renowned Argentine novelist and script writer. Born Gustavo Martnez Zuvira in Crdoba, Argentina, his family relocated to Santa Fe, and he enrolled at the University of Santa Fe, receiving a law degree in 1907. Zuvira rst used the pen name "Hugo Wast" for his 1911 novel, Flor de durazno (Peach Blossom) - his rst commercial success. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1916 as a Conservative and Hugo Wast received the National Literary Prize for his realist novel, Desierto de piedra (Stone Desert, 1925), but he was also known for his anti-semitism - established with his inammatory Oro (Gold, 1935) and his ideological association with French "integrisme," a Catholic nationalist [1] doctrine associated with the National Front. He was appointed director of the National Library of Argentina in 1931, and in 1943, as Minister of Public Instruction for the newly installed military government of General Pedro Ramrez, he reinstated religious education in public schools, [1] thus breaking from a sixty-year secular tradition in Argentine education. A souring of relations with the Catholic Church on the part of President Juan [1] Pern led to Wast's dismissal as National Library Director in 1954, and the writer died in Buenos Aires in 1962.

Works
Flor de durazno (1911) La casa de los cuervos (1916) Valle negro (1918) Desierto de Piedra (1925) El camino de las llamas (1930) El kahal (1935) Oro (1935) Juana Tabor (1942) 666 (1942)

References
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1. ^ a b c Rock, David. Authoritarian Argentina. University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

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hugowast.com.ar (http://www.hugowast.com.ar/) Martnez Zuvira, Prudencio (2012-09-20). "Para juzgar a Hugo Wast hay que conocerlo" (http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/diarios/2012/09/20/opinion /OPIN-04.html?origen=refresh). Diario: El Litoral, Edicin Online. Retrieved 12 December 2012. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugo_Wast& oldid=588906332" Categories: Argentine writers Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Education ministers Government ministers of Argentina Integrism Argentine fascists People from Crdoba, Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent University of the Littoral alumni 1883 births 1962 deaths Argentine anti-communists This page was last modied on 3 January 2014 at 02:03. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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