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Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1939. In 1974 he moved to Paris and, since 1988, he lives between Buenos Aires and the French capital. He is a film director as well as a writer, and has directed numerous movies such as La Guerre d’un seul homme, Le violon de Rothschild, Fantômes de Tanger, and Ronda nocturna, all of which blur the limits between fiction and documentary and which have won awards and been paid homage in the Musee du Jeu de Paume in Paris and in the most prestigious international film libraries. Among his most outstanding literary works are the essays Museo del chisme (Gossip Museum, 2005), El pase del testigo (The Next Witness, 2001); the books of short stories Vudú urbano (Urban Voodoo, 1985) – with  a prologue by Susan Sontag and Guillermo Cabrera Infante –, La novia de Odessa (Odessa’s Girlfriend, 2001), and Tres Fronteras (Three Frontiers, 2006); and the novels El rufián moldavo (The Moldavian Scoundrel, 2004) and Maniobras nocturnas (Night Maneuvers, 2007).