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Argentine Cleaner's Double Life As Prize-Winning Writer
Topic Started: Mar 28 2016, 02:11 AM (54 Views)
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Yahoo News: Argentine Cleaner's Double Life As Prize-Winning Writer

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Buenos Aires (AFP) - When the Buenos Aires subway closes at night, Enrique Ferrari goes underground to mop the platforms -- and to polish his next thriller.

The Argentine station cleaner, 44, with bags under his eyes, is also a prize-winning crime novelist. He has been published in several countries, but it is the nighttime cleaning job which puts food on the table for his three children.

"Live off writing? The money isn't good enough," he tells AFP.

A representative for cleaning and other unskilled staff in the subway workers' union, he is seen as a curiosity: a decorated writer who has never been to university.

The author -- and his gritty, succinct prose -- has caught the media's eye, appearing on television, radio and in news reports where he has been dubbed the "subway writer".

But he is fed up with the sobriquet. "I understand that people find it surprising, but I am not a strange creature. There are lots of we laborers who write, paint or play music," says Ferrari, an easygoing man who himself laughs about his disparate vocations.

-Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-cleaners-double-life-prize-winning-writer-050026805.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons&soc_trk=fb
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Wow. Never had that before.
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