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Costantini was born in Buenos Aires, the only child of [[Italian Jews|Italian Jewish]] immigrants who lived in the barrio of Villa Pueyrredon.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Orgambide |first=Pedro |date=1983 |title=Notas sobre un poema de Humberto Costantini |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20542092?seq=3 |journal=Hispamérica |volume=12 |issue=36 |pages=45–49 |issn=0363-0471}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Mejía |first=Adelaida López |date=1991 |title=La visión satírica de Humberto Costantini: "De dioses, hombrecitos y policías" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29740381 |journal=Chasqui |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=86–97 |doi=10.2307/29740381 |issn=0145-8973}}</ref> He married Nela Nur Fernandez and the couple had three children, Violeta, Ana und Daniel († 2022). A medical [[veterinarian]], he practiced near the city of Lobería, [[Buenos Aires Province]]. In 1955, he returned to the city of Buenos Aires where he worked in various jobs: veterinarian, salesman, potter, and medical researcher. Meanwhile, he worked tirelessly in off-hours, "nailed to the chair" as he said, writing and rewriting his novels.

In 1976, Costantini was forced into exile in Mexico where he continued writing.<ref name=":0" /> He suffered in an exile that obliged him "to glance through the lists for his loved ones, as if the city had been hit with a typhoon." He conducted narrative workshops regularly, made programs for radio and for television, and he fell in love. As he said on his return: "In short, I lived." Costantini returned to Buenos Aires in 1983 after seven years, seven months and seven days in exile.<ref name=":0" />

Costantini's oeuvre included short stories, poetry, plays, novels, and radio programs. His first book of stories, ''De Por Aquí Nomás'', was published in 1958. His novel ''De Dioses, Hombrecitos y Policías (The Gods, The Little Guys and the Police),'' written while in hiding from the dictatorial government, was awarded the [[Casa de Las Américas Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gods, the Little Guys, and the Police, by Humberto Costantini (Book Review) - ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/12e0d2fc794b9b8d6518faddc9664e2d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821054 |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en}}</ref> His unfinished work, ''Rapsodía de Raquel Liberman'', recounts the exploits of a Jewish [[prostitute]] enslaved by the sinister organization [[Zwi Migdal]] who ultimately leaves that life behind her. This work shows a fundamental theme of Costani's: "To do what is right in the eyes of [[Jehova]], meaning to fulfill one's destiny."

* ''Libro de Trelew'' (epic narration) edition in 1971970