{{Short description|Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter}} {{use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox writer | name = Alan Pauls | image = Pauls, Alan.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Buenos Aires | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Premio Herralde (2003) | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Alan Pauls''' (born 1959) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter.
==Early life== Pauls was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959.<ref name="CorralCastro2013"/> He studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires.<ref name=fuentetaja>{{cite web|url=https://fuentetajaliteraria.com/nuestro-equipo/miembro/alan-pauls/|work=Fuentetaja|title=Nuestro equipo|access-date=15 June 2025|language=es}}</ref>
==Career== An early essay by Pauls on ''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'' by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Although he has expressed skepticism about the avant-garde as any form of program, preferring to see it as a "toolbox." Among his own experimental works is ''Wasabi'' from 1994. He also had a longstanding interest in film and his later work ''El pasado'' was adapted to film in 2007.<ref name="CorralCastro2013">{{cite book|author1=Will H. Corral|author2=Juan E. De Castro|author3=Nicholas Birns |title=The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolano and After|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_n_FAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT360|date=26 September 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-4245-0|pages=360–362}}</ref>
He wrote a "History of" trilogy with the titles being ''History of crying'', ''History of hair'', and ''History of money''.<ref name="Fernández q480">{{cite web | last=Fernández | first=Daniela | title=Conversation with Alan Pauls at Universidad de Buenos Aires | website=Radio Lacan | url=https://www.radiolacan.com/en/topic/150/7 | access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref>
==Academia== Pauls has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University.<ref name="Fernández q480"/> He is also a professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.<ref name=fuentetaja/>
== Awards and fellowships == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Title |- |2003 |Herralde Award<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Lequai Angers|url=https://www.lequai-angers.eu/media/lequai/102737-elbaile_english_170217.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> |- |2013 |Santa Maddalena Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-08|title=Alan Pauls|url=http://santamaddalena.org/alan-pauls/|access-date=2020-12-05|website=Santa Maddalena Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2014 |Konex Award<ref>{{Cite web|last=Factory|first=Troop Software|title=Alan Pauls {{!}} Fundación Konex|url=https://www.fundacionkonex.org/|access-date=2020-12-07|website=www.fundacionkonex.org|language=es}}</ref> |- |2019-2020 |DAAD Artists in Berlin Program<ref>{{Cite web|title=DAAD MEETS HAFEN LESUNG|url=http://www.nachtasyl.de/index.php/533-daad-meets-hafen-lesung?date=2019-11-26-20-00|access-date=2020-12-05|website=NACHTASYL Hamburg|language=de-de}}</ref> |}
== Selected works == === Books === {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Title |- |1984 |''El pudor del pornógrafo'' |- |1990 |''El coloquio'' |- |1994 |''Wasabi'' |- |2003 |''El pasado''<ref name="vd">{{cite book |title=Lengua castellana y Literatura|last1=Arroyo Cantón|first1=Carlos|last2=Berlato Rodríguez|first2=Perla|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=España|pages=407|language=es|year=2012|isbn=9788467367966}}</ref> |- |2007 |''Historia del llanto'' |- |2010 |''Historia del pelo'' |- |2013 |''Historia del dinero'' |- |2013 |Noche en Opwijk |- |2019 |''Trance: Un glosario'' |}
=== Essays === {| class="wikitable" !Year !Title |- |1986 |''Manuel Puig. La traición de Rita Hayworth'' |- |1995 |''Lino Palacio. La infancia de la risa'' |- |1996 |''Cómo se escribe. El diario íntimo'' |- |1996 |''El factor Borges'' |- |2006 |''La vida descalzo'' |- |2012 |''Temas lentos'' |- |2019 |''Trance'' |} == Filmography == {| class="wikitable" !Year !Title !Role |- |1983 |Los enemigos |Scriptwriter |- |1986 |La era del ñandú |Scriptwriter |- |1988 |Sinfín |Scriptwriter |- |1995 |El censor |Scriptwriter |- |2001 |Private Lives |Scriptwriter |- |2003 |The Blonds |Scriptwriter |- |2004 |Imposible |Scriptwriter |- |2005 |''Alan Pauls. Conversaciones con Daniel Guebel'' |Scriptwriter |- |2006 |Arizona sur |Scriptwriter |- |2007 |''¿De quién es el portaligas?'' |Actor |- |2011 |''La vida nueva'' |Actor |- |2011 |''Medianeras'' |Actor |- |2012 |''Cassandra'' |Actor |}
== External links == * {{IMDb Name|667276}}
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pauls, Alan}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Argentine male writers Category:Writers from Buenos Aires Category:University of Buenos Aires alumni Category:Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires
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