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Roberto Jorge Payró
1867–1928
A sharp-eyed Argentine journalist and storyteller, this author turned travel, politics, and everyday life into lively fiction with humor and bite. His work helped capture a changing Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century.
3 Audiobooks
Divertidas aventuras del nieto de Juan Moreira
by Roberto Jorge Payró
Pago Chico
by Roberto Jorge Payró
El casamiento de Laucha
by Roberto Jorge Payró
About the author
Born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province, on April 19, 1867, he became known as both a writer and a journalist. He founded the newspaper La Tribuna in Bahía Blanca and later worked for La Nación, building a career that linked reporting, travel writing, fiction, and theater.
His books often drew on direct observation of Argentine life, from provincial customs to public affairs. He is especially remembered for works such as La Australia Argentina, En las tierras del Inti, and Divertidas aventuras del nieto de Juan Moreira, and he has also been described as one of Argentina's earliest war correspondents.
He died in Lomas de Zamora on April 8, 1928. Today he is remembered for an energetic, often ironic style that brought journalism and literature together in a vivid way.