World Library and Information Congress 2004.

This article profiles Tomás Eloy Martinez, an Argentine novelist, who will be the Keynote Speaker at the Opening Session of the World Library and Information Congress to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 2004. Martinez was born in Tucumá in the north of Argentina, in July of 1934. It was there that he graduated in literature, later going on to Paris where he completed his doctorate, writing his thesis on Borges. His intense and committed journalistic activity has obligued him to spend various periods in exile. As of January 2004, he is the director of Latin American studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey. In his novels one can appreciate, apart from his literary talent, his capacity for obtaining and organizing historical documents carefully guarded by all the sectors that have played a role in the Argentine drama of recent years. This is particularly true for this books La Novela de Perón and Santa Evita.