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- Tomás Eloy Martínez was born on July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina. He was a writer, known for El terrorista (1962), La madre María (1974) and El último piso (1962). He was married to Lilian von Ziegler, Gabriela Esquivada and Susana Rotker-Martinez. He died on January 31, 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- SpousesLilian von Ziegler (4 children)Gabriela Esquivada(? - January 30, 2010) (his death)Susana Rotker-Martinez(? - 2000) (her death)
- He is survived by his wife, Gabriela Esquivada; his children- Tomas, Gonzalo, Ezequiel, Paula, Blas, Javier, and Sol-Ana, and many grandchildren. His previous wife, Susana Rotker-Martinez, a former Rutgers University professor, was hit by a truck and killed in 2000.
- He had homes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Highland Park, New Jersey.
- He fled to Paris and later to Venezuela before coming to the United States in the 1980s where he taught at the University of Maryland in College Park and later at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he taught in the Spanish and Portuguese Department from 1995 until his death.
- He escaped an assassination attempt in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- He interviewed the exiled General Juan Domingo Peron in Madrid, Spain in the 1970s.
- Nothing is true; at the same time everything is true. You see in my part of the world, documents often were falsified by governments. There is almost nothing authentic. If those in power have the right to imagine a history that is false, why then shouldn't novelists attempt with their imaginations to discover the truth.
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