Alejandro Dolina

Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (Morse, Buenos Aires Province, May 20, 1944) is an Argentine writer, musician, radio and television host, and actor. He studied law, music, letters and history. He is mainly known inside and outside his country for his literary works and his classic radio show La venganza será terrible .

Biography

Childhood and youth

Dolina was born in Morse, near Baigorrita, in the province of Buenos Aires, and spent her early childhood in the Buenos Aires town of Caseros. His mother, Delfa Virginia Colombo (1922-1994), was a teacher, his father, & # 34; El Bebe & # 34; Dolina, was the accountant for Plavinil Argentina.

He studied music and literature from a young age. He had various jobs. It is known that he was an ENTEL operator and a law student.

At the age of 22, he dropped out of law school and was unemployed. At a party he met Manuel Evequoz who, interested in Dolina's fine intelligence and humor, became friends and got him a job in an advertising agency. This meant introducing him to the media and discovering his vocation in the environment. Dolina was a great friend of Evequoz and his character Manuel Mandeb is inspired by him. Evequoz belonged to the Montoneros and disappeared during the 1976 dictatorship. The character was created while Evequoz was alive. However, his texts would be published in the following decade.

Since his youth he was fond of tango, philosophy and literature. The woman has a fundamental role in his speech and even in his motivations, when he affirms that "everything I do I do to raise mines." This quote is wrongly attributed to Dolina, since it really belongs to the humorist Caloi, who put it in the mouth of the character Alexis Dolinades, inspired by him. Dolina takes up this statement in his work Lo que me costo el amor de Laura (1998): «It has been said that men do everything they do with the sole purpose of making women fall in love».

Advertising and graphics

In the early 1970s, Dolina began her career in advertising and wrote articles for Satiricón, a magazine that, through humor, commented on current issues of politics, society, and lifestyle. During this period he worked with Carlos Trillo, who was also in advertising and would later become a successful comic book writer.

In 1978, after the magazine Satiricón was closed down by the military junta that ruled the country, Dolina began writing for the magazine Humor. During those years, Dolina dedicated herself to writing about honor, love, friendship, and even created a certain mythology centered on characters such as the Gray Angel of Flores, the fictional writer Manuel Mandeb, and others. Those stories were published in the book Crónicas del Ángel Gris in 1987 and later turned into a musical. These characters would appear in several of his later books.

In 2011 he was one of the voices of the advertising pieces of Banco Provincia.

Radius

In 1975 he made his first radio appearances on Mañanitas nocturnas, a program by Carlos Ulanovsky and Mario Mactas that was broadcast on Radio Argentina. He played a journalist named Gomez. It was there that the character of Sordo Gancé appeared for the first time, an improvised musician, present to this day in the broadcasts of La venganza será terrible.

"The team was moving, a journalist who was around the world covering news, very bad." In that cycle, the character of the Sordo Gancé arose. "I always played the same song: Milonga sentimental "Remember Dolina—and they kicked him out."

On April 2, 1985, Dolina made her radio debut by hosting a program that was broadcast on Radio El Mundo, Too late for tears, together with Adolfo Castelo. Under the same name, the program moved to Radio Rivadavia in 1989 and, briefly, during 1991 (barely a month) to LRA Radio Nacional. Then it went to Viva FM radio, changing its name to El navel del mundo. During 1993 it continued on FM Tango baptized, for contractual reasons, as La venganza será terrible, reaching Radio Continental (1994-2000 and 2002-2006), and Radio Del Plata, where it was broadcast only during 2001. while, at the same time, Radio Continental broadcast recorded programs from previous seasons. At the end of 2006, the program moved to Radio 10, where it would remain until the end of 2009. From February 2010 to December 2011 it was broadcast on LRA Radio Nacional, with Patricio Barton every night, and Gabriel Schultz and Jorge Dorio in the form alternated. As of January 2012, the program is broadcast, now without Schultz, by Radio del Plata in duplex with 360 TV. For his work on this program, Dolina won the Konex Award for best conductor in 1991.

His radio program was the leader in its time slot from the first year of broadcasting, with more than half of the radio listeners in the country being turned on. Already considered a classic of the Río de la Plata radio, he usually makes live presentations of the program even outside the City of Buenos Aires. One of the last performances of 2012 was held at the Burzaco movie theater, where people from Almirante Brown's party and neighboring parties filled the venue and at the end of the event gave him a standing ovation. According to Dolina himself: «It is strange how such a large audience can be sustained in a country where people are not supposed to read, when to understand my program you have to have looked at at least two books».^{[ citation required]} His daily work is as much an invitation to history and literature as it is to surrealism. He manages to make prose of both a fragment of the Odyssey and a decalogue of tips to better remove stains from clothes. His improvisational capacity as a narrator, actor and musician amazes every day. In March 2013, he carried out a special program from the Memory and Human Rights Space, where the former Navy School of Mechanics operated.

In September 2016, he resigned from Radio Del Plata and Dolina assured that Vengeance will be terrible he would return to another station. Since September 16 of that year, the program has been broadcast on AM 750 at its usual time slot at midnight and 8:00 p.m., in which the previous midnight program is repeated, called La Venganza, el eterno retorno eight o'clock.

Literature

After Crónicas del Ángel Gris (1988), his most successful book to date, he published The Book of the Ghost (1999), Bar del Infierno (2005) (collections of short stories), Cartas marcadas (2012) (his first novel) and Footnotes (his second novel) (2021). In these works he addresses historical, philosophical and costumbrist themes. Clearly influenced by Borges, it alternates between fantastic literature (stories of angels, demons, metamorphosis and miracles), essays ("Bovarismo descendente" in El libro del fantasma ; "El otro infierno" in Hell's Bar, among others) and the historical account ("Elisa Brown", "Saint Germain", etc.).

Music

Dolina is a singer and composer. In his radio and television programs he always included musical segments. In 1990 he adapted the Crónicas and presented the musical comedy El barrio del Ángel Gris . He received the Argentores award for it. In 1998, he recorded his operetta Lo que me costó el amor de Laura together with Mercedes Sosa, Sandro, Joan Manuel Serrat and Ernesto Sabato, among others. In 2002, he adapted some of his old radio dramas and recorded Radiocine. In 2004 he released the CD Tangos del Bar del Infierno .

Television

He starred in two programs: La barra de Dolina (1989 on Channel 11, 1990 on ATC) and Bar del Infierno (2003, Channel 7). She also participated in the program Brain Drain broadcast around 1991 by the then ATC channel, together with Lalo Mir, Elizabeth Vernaci and Manuel Wirzt.

The fictional documentary Recordando el show de Alejandro Molina, written and starring Dolina under the direction of Juan José Campanella, was broadcast in 2011 by Canal Encuentro and later by Public Television. This series of thirteen half-hour episodes included the participation of Ale and Martín Dolina, Patricio Barton, Gillespi, Coco Silly, Gabriel Rolón and Manuel Moreira, among others.

Summarized work

Dolina during the inauguration of Angel Gris Square, Buenos Aires, 2010.

Novel

• Cards marked, Buenos Aires: Planet, 2012
• Footnotes, Buenos Aires: Planet, 2021

Story

• 1988: Chronicles of the Angel Gris. Buenos Aires: Editions de la Urraca, with illustrations by Carlos Nine.
• 1996: Chronicles of the Angel Gris. Buenos Aires: Colihue, edited and increased, with illustrations by Hermenegildo Sábat.
• 1999: The Ghost Book. Buenos Aires: Colihue, with illustrations by Carlos Nine.
• 2005: Bar of Hell. Buenos Aires: Planet.

Discography

• 1998: What cost me Laura's love
• 2002: Radiocine
• 2004: Tangos of the Bar of Hell

Theater

• 1990: The neighborhood of Angel Gris
• 1991: Midnight Theatre
• 2004: Bar of Hell

Radius

• 1972: Midnights
• 1985-1991: Too late for tears
• 1992: The navel of the world
• 1993-present: Revenge will be terrible
• 2020: 100 years of radio (special)

Television

• 1986: Rêves, bifteck et démocratie; Allons tous à Viedma; Tout est mort, je le sais. Series of three documentaries by Françoise Prébois, France 3
• 1988-1990: The Dolina bar
• 1991: Brain smoke
• 2003: Bar of Hell
• 2011: Remembering Alejandro Molina's show.

Cinema

• 1988: Mr.'s puertitas. LópezLike God
• 1995: The day Maradona met Gardel
• 2004: Avellaneas interviewed
• 2007: The arklike Cachito (voice paper)
• 2008: Ernesto Sabato, my fatheras interviewed

Awards

• Martin Fierro Award from ORO: 1 time 2022
• Martin Fierro Award: 6 times
• Clarín Award: 4 times
• Argentores Award: 4 times
• Konex Award - Merit Diploma (1991)
• José Hernández
• Enrique Santos Discépolo
• Star of the Sea
• Eter Awards
• TEA
• SADAIC
• Susini
• Arturo Jauretche
• Lector Prize of the Book Fair 2013, for his novel Cards marked

In 2001, he was named Distinguished Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires. Likewise, in 2003 he was declared an illustrious visitor to the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.

On August 11, 2014, at the corner of Curapaligüe and Sabattini in Caseros, the "Paseo del Ángel Gris" in his honor.

On October 18, 2014, the National University of San Juan, through its rector and president of the Superior Council, Oscar Nasisi, approved the granting of the Doctor Honoris Causa title to Alejandro Dolina.