Argentine Novelist Manuel Puig was Born in 1932

Today in Latin American history, Argentine writer Manuel Puig whose novels have been turned into films and plays was born in 1932.

Puig began his career writing screenplays.  His failed attempt became his first novel, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, in which a boy escapes his tedious small-town life through fantasies and movies.

His novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, was also made into a film and a broadway musical.

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