Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia was born on the 24 th November 1941. He is one of the foremost modern day writers of the country Argentina. source of ...
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Ricardo Piglia was born on the 24th November 1941. He is one
of the foremost modern day writers of the country Argentina.
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Biography
Ricardo Piglia was born in Adrogue and was raised in Mar del Plata, and
it was there that he went to live in the year 1955 after the fall of Juan
Peron, who got the support of his father. Ricardo Piglia studied History in the
University of La Plata. He worked in many publishing houses in Buenos Aires and
was in control of the series Negra that published the popular authors of crime
fiction including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler,
David Goodis and Horace McCoy.
Ricardo Piglia is popular for his fiction and his several collections of
short stories.
Ricardo Piglia has lived in United States for a long time and there he
was a teacher of the Latin American Literature at Princeton University.
Awards
Ricardo Piglia has received many awards;
Ø Premiointernacional
de novelaRómulo Gallegos (2011)
Ø PremioIberoamericano
de lasLetras (2005)
Ø PremioPlaneta
(1997)
Ø Premio
Casa de lasAméricas(1967).
Works
Essays
Ø Criticism and Fiction 1986 ("Crítica
y ficción")
Ø Argentina in Pieces 1993 ("La
Argentina en pedazos")
Ø Brief Forms 1999
("Formasbreves")
Ø Dictionary of the Novel of MacedonioFernández
2000
Ø The Last Reader 2005 ("El
último lector")
Novels
Ø Artificial Respiration
1980 ("Respiración artificial")
Ø The Absent City 1992 ("La
ciudad ausente")
Ø Burnt Money 1997 ("Plata
Quemada")
Ø Nocturnal Target 2010 ("Blanco nocturno")
Short story
collections
Ø The Invasion 1967("La
Invasión")
Ø Assumed Name 1975
("NombreFalso")
Ø Perpetual Prison 1988
("Prisiónperpetua")
Ø Moral Tales 1995
("Cuentosmorales")
