Jorge FERNÁNDEZ DÍAZ

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Novelist and journalist Jorge Fernández Díaz continued to be the subject of harassment from President Javier Milei in 2025. In April 2025, Milei once again insulted and discredited Fernández Díaz’ work as a columnist and journalist after the latter had published several opinion pieces criticising the president. Such attacks contribute to an increasingly hostile environment for free expression in the country. Many authors condemned the criticism. Fernández Díaz had suffered similar harassment from President Milei in 2024 (see Case List 2025). 

Well known writer Jorge Fernández Díaz was born in Buenos Aires on 8 July 1960. He is the author of more than 15 books, including novels, investigative journalism, short stories and essays such as: Cora (Planeta, 2024), La traición (The Betrayal), (Planeta, 2020) and La herida (The Wound), (Planeta 2014). He is the winner of multiple awards, such as two Platinum Konex Awards, the Martin Fierro Award, the Silver Laurel for Personality of the Year, the  Argentores Award for screenwriting, the  Bicentennial Medal for his journalistic and literary work, and the  Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, in recognition of his contributions to culture.