Héctor Freire

Héctor Freire

Writer, poet and film critic. Héctor was a member of the Editorial Board of Topía since 1996, writing in all issues and being responsible for the cultural area of our magazine.

He was born on December 10, 1953. He was a professor of Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. He received the Prize and the Scholarship for Literary Research Cycle 2003, granted by the National Endowment for the Arts, for his project "Poesía Buenos Aires (1980/1990)". He was the founder of the First Literary School of the IFT Theater (“Idisher Folks Teater”), jury member of the National Endowment for the Arts (essay genre), editor-in-chief of the “Barataria” Poetry Magazine, as well as the Cultural Magazine “La Pecera” (Mar del Plata) and director of the Culture Magazine “Rizoma” and head of the Art and Eroticism sections of the virtual magazine “El Psicoanalítico”. Between 1994-2014 he was part of the group of teacher-trainers of CEPA (School of Teacher Training. Pedagogies of Anticipation), dependent on the Secretary of Education of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

He leaves us a luxuriant written production, among which the following stand out: Literature and cinema, use of video in the classroom (co-authored with Maximiliano González Jewkes, 1997), Holds Tabucchi (everything is a movie) (co-authored with Roberto Ferro, Maximiliano González Jewkes and Ana Paruolo, 2000), We are from cinema (critics and views from art) (Topía, 2007), Cinema in its labyrinth: literature, painting and society (Topía, 2009), Cinema in times of insignificance (2013). Also books of poetry such as Voices in the dream of the stone (1991), Poetics of time (Graffiti, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1997), Motivos en color de perecer (2003; National Fund for the Arts Award), Satori (2010; with second edition, Spanish-French, in 2013) and Botany. Poetic Anthology (2021).