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Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, who normally went only by his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist. He was a distant relative of the novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan. Fogwill died on August 21, 2010 from a pulmonary dysfunction caused by his addiction to smoking.
Fogwill was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, publisher of a poetry book collection, essayist, and a columnist specializing in communications subjects, literature, and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk", which received the first prize in a literary contest in 1980, compelled him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that led him to become a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. He is perhaps particularly notable for his short novel Los pichiciegos, which was one of the very first narratives to deal with the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
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