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Copi

Copi

Known for

Acting

Born

November 20, 1939

Birthplace

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died

December 14, 1987 (aged 48)

Biography

Raúl Damonte Botana (November 20, 1939, Buenos Aires – December 14, 1987, Paris), better known by the nom de plume Copi (from "copito de nieve", Spanish for "little snowflake"), was an Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright who spent most of his career in Paris.

Damonte spent most of his youth in Montevideo. His maternal grandfather was the journalist Natalio Félix Botana and his father was the journalist Raúl Damonte Taborda, an antiperonist Radical politician and director of the journal Tribuna Popular. Raúl showed an early talent for drawing and, from his adolescence, contributed caricatures to his father's publication and to the satirical magazine Tía Vicenta.

His father's politi...

Best known work

The Book of Mary

The Book of Mary

1985
Maman Que Man

Maman Que Man

1982
Apostrophes

Apostrophes

1975
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

1975
Le Frigo

Le Frigo

2015

Filmography

  1. 2015

    Le Frigo

    Theatre Play

  2. 1985

    The Book of Mary

    as Man on the Train

  3. 1982

  4. 1975

  5. 1975

    ApostrophesTV

    as Self (1 episode)

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