Haroldo Conti

Haroldo Conti (May 25, 1925 – 1976?) was an Argentine writer, screenwriter, teacher and Latin professor. On May 5, 1976 he was disappeared during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional military dictatorship; on this day the "Día del Escritor Bonaerense" (Day of the Buenos Aires Province writer) is held to commemorate this date of his kidnapping.

In 2015, an English translation of his first novel, ''Southeaster,'' was published by And Other Stories in the UK. This second edition followed that published in Spain (2013) by Immigrant Press under the title "South-East".

In 1981, Colombian Nobel prize winner Gabriel García Márquez wrote of Conti's disappearance, saying that he "was one of the greatest of Argentinian writers." Provided by Wikipedia