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Bernardo Verbitsky

Bernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist (his son Horacio Verbitsky has followed the same professional paths).

Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist with Noticias Graficas, and a member of Academia Portena del Lunfardo ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo's Academy"). He reported Buenos Aires' ups and downs; his writings were linked to tango and other essential aspects of the city. Hugo del Carril based its 1958 motion picture Una cita con la vida on Verbitsky's novel Calles de tango.

His 1957 novel Villa Miseria tambien es America (roughly "Povertyville is also [a part of] America") gave its popular name to Argentina's ...

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