Overview

• Daniel Samoilovich died Monday in Mexico City at 76 after an emergency hospitalization, according to confirmations reported by La Nación.
• He had traveled to take part in a poetry translation roundtable preceding the M’ilumino d’immenso award and was slated to present Estética del error.
• La Nación reported that his body will be repatriated.
• Samoilovich founded and directed Diario de Poesía from 1986 to 2012, a forum widely credited with expanding debate and readership in Argentine poetry.
• Across five decades he published about twenty books, translated Horace and Shakespeare, lived in exile in Spain from 1978, and worked as a journalist for Clarín, Triunfo and El País.