Marcos Sastre

Marcos Sastre
Portrait of Marcos Sastre.
Born(1808-10-02)October 2, 1808
Montevideo, Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
DiedFebruary 15, 1887(1887-02-15) (aged 78)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationWriter
LanguageSpanish
CitizenshipArgentina

Marcos Sastre (2 October 1808, Montevideo 15 February 1887, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer, born in neighboring Uruguay. He founded, along with Juan B. Alberdi, Juan María Gutiérrez and Esteban Echeverría, the Salón Literario, the beginning of the Generation of '37.