Carlos Mastronardi

Carlos Mastronardi (1901-1976) won the Municipal Prize for Literature in 1937 (poetry) and 1955 (prose).

"Few men preserved solitude as meticulously as Mastronardi. He was an inseparable friend of the night who wisely abused the night and the coffee, which is so similar to the night. To live, he chose Avenida de Mayo, perhaps one of the saddest areas of Buenos Aires. Like Auguste Dupin, the first detective of police literature, at night he went through the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only the night of a big city can give." - Borges, El Pais, 1986