The Chilean literary world on Monday mourned the death of argentine writer Juan Forn, at the age of 61, victim of a heart attack.
The bookstore Qué Leo and the authors Marcelo Leonart, Alberto Fuguet and Andrea Jeftanovic commented on the news on their social networks.
Forn was founder of the supplement “Radar” of the Argentine newspaper Página 12 and served for fifteen years as editor of the publishing houses Emecé and Planeta.
“I can’t believe you about Juan Forn. Today it is reread in his honor for the millionth time ‘Nadar de noche’, “said Leonart, referring to the book of short stories published in 1992.
Fuguet, meanwhile, wrote: “I don’t know what to write. I read, I reread, I look at my noventeros underlines. Gone is Juan Forn. At one point he welcomed me as an angel who appeared for James. He made me change, later, the title of my first novel (…) and recommended many authors”.
“He was for a while, in the ’90s, an older brother, a lighthouse, a guide. He even agreed to be part of McOndo. He was my editor and brought out Mala onda (in Buenos Aires by Biblioteca del Sur de Planeta). I saw it here and there. I associate it with an analogous era. He was, of course, a companion on the road. Thank you for picking me up from the berm.”
Forn published Corazones (novel, 1987), Nadar de noche (short stories, 1991), Frivolidad (novel, 1995), Puras mentiras (novel, 2001), La tierra elegido (chronicles, 2005), María Domecq (novel, 2007), No man es una isla (chronicles, 2009) and the three volumes of Los viernes.
