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I'm a lawyer and writer. My non-fiction works center on history and criminal cases. My tales of the Pampas are written in spanish.
Famous criminal cases of USA and UK both in Spanish and
English.
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Background
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I have been strongly influenced by my culture heritage, legal background and vast reading from Herodotus, Thucydides,Xenophon, Polybius, Virgilio and Tacitus to the moderns like Arnold J. Toynbee, Margaret Tuchman and Paul
Kennedy.My sources on criminal cases are the trial records,
books and my assistance to trials by jury in USA and UK
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Birth Place
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Pehuajó, Argentina
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Accomplishments
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Member of several international History asociations.
Ex-member of the High Courts.
Ex-judge.
Specially recommended writer by the most important journals of Argentina.
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Additional Information
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I have published two books in Spanish:
"Guerra en las Pampas" (War on the Pampas).Ed. Corregidor.Bs.As. 1994.-
"Casos Criminales I" (Criminal Cases I).Ed.Argenta, Bs.As.
1999.-
"Relatos del Oeste Bonaerense", published in Magazine of
American Institute of Basque Studies.
On the Web:
Several tales of basques in the pampas. (Buber's Basque Page).
Personal literary website up to 2002:
www.itunet.com.ar/altuna
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Favorite Links
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María Cristina Azcona (daughter-writer)
Bilingual Poetess of Humankind Literature.
María Silvina Castellano
Upcoming poetess and lawyer.
Fernando Castellano
universitary student of systems
short story writer
Editor of my first book
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