His father was from Bessarabia. His works include: Un crimen secunda- rio (1992), Derrotado por un vivo (1994), El alma al dios de los hebreos (1994), Fabulas salvajes (1996), El abogado del marciano (1998), No tan distinto (2000) and Tres mosqueteros (2001) and y los libros de cuentos La Salchicha mas alta (1997), Ser humano y otras desgracias (1997), Historias de hombres casados (1999), Nue- vas historias de hombres casados (2001), Ultimas historias de hombres casados (2007), Hechizos de amor (2002). He was decorated with the prizes: First Prize of the Metropolitan Competition for Children's Shows, organized by the Municipality of Buenos Aires for the work Cuatro vientos y el saxo magico; Special mention in the National Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation for the production 1994-1997 for the work Fabulas salvajes; Best Screenplay at the Lleida Festival (Spain) for El Abrazo Partido, 2002; The Silver Bear at the Berlinale (Berlin, Germany, 2004) for El Abrazo Partido; KonexAward of the Diplomaof Merit in the discipline of Youth, 2004; Konex Award 2011, Diploma of Merit together with Daniel Burman in the discipline of Screenwriting (being included in the top 5 best screenwriters of the decade 2001- 2010); He has frequently published in Spanish newspapers: ABC, El Pais, El Mundo. Writes weekly in Ya magazine, El Mercurio (Santiago de Chile), as he does for Clarin (Buenos Aires, Argentina).