Edgardo David Holzman

Edgardo David Holzman is intimately familiar with Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship, which serves as the backdrop for Malena. Born in Buenos Aires and currently living in Philadelphia, Holzman obtained his law degree in Argentina and his LLM in the U.S.

As an attorney and translator, he has worked for a number of international organizations?experiences that led him to the historical record behind Malena, especially Nunca Más (Never Again), the 1984 report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared. Malena is his debut novel.