Name:Javier Villafáñe

Place of birth:Buenos Aires

Birthdate:1909

Date of death:1996

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Predominant genre:Miscellany

Works:http://www.imaginaria.com.ar/08/9/villafane.htm

Merits to be in this database:With his cart La Andariega he travelled around Argentina and several American countries performing puppet shows. He left his country in the middle of the dictatorship and repeated his transhumant experience in the Old Continent: with a travelling the

Type of stories he/she tells (specialty):Puppets. He built his puppet-presenter of all his works, Maese Trotamundos, which would give birth to a legendary character that is part of many of his books.

Others:http://www.imaginaria.com.ar/03/8/ancianos.htm