Emeterio Cerro, whose birth name is Héctor Medina, was born on December 3, 1952, in
Balcarce, in the
Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained his bachelor's degree in psychology and graduated as
regisseur of opera at the Higher Institute of Arts of the
Colón Theatre (Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón); he further enrolled at the
Sorbonne University in Paris in advanced courses of
linguistics. Since 1986, he lived in Paris. By means of
La Barrosa (
Miss Murkiness), a
theatre company he created in 1983, he was able to present his works that reflect his creativeness. The name of his theatre company derives from one work of his that consisted in two long poems organized on musical structures, based on sound repetition and variation, where the logic sustaining discourse is strictly phonic. Among the plays he made stand out
La Juanetarga,
El Cuis Cuis,
El Bochicho,
La Julietada,
La Magdalena del Ojón,
El Bollo,
Doña Ñoca,
La Papelona,
La María Rodríguez,
La Tullivieja,
La Dongue,
La Marita,
Loca de Amor (
Mad of Love),
Las Guaranís (1996), and
Tango-Macbeth. He collaborated in literary magazines and newspapers such as
Último Reino and
El Porteño from Argentina,
Ovación from Colombia,
Dimensão from Brasil,
Empireuma and
Gemma from España,
Akcent from Poland and
Les Cahiers du Sud from France. He is considered to belong to the
neo-Baroque group among other writers such as
Severo Sarduy,
Néstor Perlongher,
Arturo Carrera, Tamara Kamenszain, and
Osvaldo Lamborghini. He died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1996. ==Works==