Juan Terranova

Terranova in 2011

Juan Terranova (born December 28, 1975) is an Argentine writer, one of the newly appeared voices in Argentine contemporary Literature. He currently writes cultural columns for HiperCritico.com and runs his daily updated blog, El Conejo de la Suerte.

He was a contributor to La Joven Guardia anthology, considered by many as a generational landmark.

In March 2011, Juan wrote an article in El Guardian entitled "Arte, provocación y guarradas en la calle"[1] in which he publicly expressed his desire to meet the leader of Hollaback Buenos Aires[2] and tell her, after some drinks, he would like to perform violent anal sex on her. Holla Back international interpreted this as a rape threat, and both filed a complaint with INADI against Terranova and started a Change.org petition demanding his resignation. Terranova offered an apology which was accompanied by the publisher's editorial opinion that "it is important to note that journalists of this means we're free to express our ideas, wrong or not. Firing a journalist, even boorish, threatening or wrong, is a procedure that contradicts the basic principles of freedom of expression";[3] the apology was criticized as being a justification of his discrimination and gender violence rather than a defence of freedom of expression.[4] After the paper received word that Fiat and Lacoste were to withdraw advertising from the paper,[5] Terranova was fired from the staff on May 3, 2011.

Novels

Essays

References

  1. "Arte, provocación y guarradas en la calle". Arte, provocación y guarradas en la calle.
  2. "Hollaback Buenos Aires". Hollaback Buenos Aires.
  3. Juan Terranova. "Mi retractación pública y pedido de disculpas".
  4. Chaher, Sandra. "La Violencia Mediatica Acecha En Todos Lados". La Violencia Mediatica Acecha En Todos Lados (in Spanish). Artemisia Noticias. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  5. "Lacoste y Fiat cancelan su contrato publicitario con El Guardian por los comentarios discriminatorios de Juan Terranova". Buenos Aires Hollaback. April 8, 2011.

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