Quote by Tomás Eloy Martínez: “The dead are never truly dead as long as someone, somewhere, still speaks their name.”

Death removes a person from the living world, but memory keeps something of them alive. As long as people talk about someone, tell their stories, and carry their influence forward, that person continues to exist in a real way. Naming the dead is an act of preservation.

Martínez published Santa Evita in 1995, a novel about the posthumous political uses of Eva Perón's embalmed body. Argentina was reckoning with the long aftermath of its military dictatorship, including the beginnings of legal efforts to hold perpetrators of the Dirty War accountable for their crimes.

Argentine journalist and novelist, celebrated for his novels Santa Evita and The Perón Novel, which examined Argentina's political mythology through the lives of its most polarizing figures. His work blurred the line between journalism, history, and fiction to extraordinary effect.