Hugo Pezzini has made English the main language of his writing. Previously, he wrote and published both in Spanish and Portuguese (He still writes as well in these two languages). His current fiction blends the ironic bitterness found in the mythology of Buenos Aires's tango with the sensual tropical hedonism of the people of Rio de Janeiro.
Hugo Pezzini received a Bachelor in Arts degree —summa cum laude, 4.0; Phi Beta Kappa— in English and American Literature, and Interdisciplinary Honors (with a minor in Philosophy), from Hunter College, of the City University of New York. He is an Instructor of Record of New York University, where he is currently writing his dissertation for his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Literature. He already holds a Master of Arts degree, also in Comparative Literature, awarded by the latter institution.
In 2003, he wrote The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? This is a critical-theory book, strongly charged with his personal political views. (At the July 2004 Cultural Analysis Summer Academy, the conference on academia & activism organized by the Universiteit van Amsterdam - the Free University of Amsterdam, in Holland - Hugo Pezzini introduced his book sarcastically describing it as "a biased work”).
Hugo writes fiction, poetry; theoretical, analytical, and critical articles and essays on literature, politics, culture, philosophy, cinema, theater, painting, and sculpture. Himself a painter, he has described his painting style (perhaps not without some irony) as concrete expressionism. He is finishing a novel, of which he thinks under the working title Tropical Paradise Lost.
Hugo Pezzini lived the first eight months of 2004 in Paris, where he did research at the Université de Paris (Sorbonne), and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, François Mitterrand, on issues related to resistance and rebellion.
Having formerly resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in January of 1988 this writer arrived to New York City, and has since made of Manhattan his home. His Central Park West apartment, where both his many large and intricate small paintings hang, has been described by the Irish writer Emer Martin as “the inside of Hugo's head.”