Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia receiving the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Caracas, August 2, 2011

Ricardo Piglia (born on November 24, 1941 in Adrogué and raised in Mar del Plata) is one of the foremost contemporary Argentine writers,^[1] known for his fiction, including several collections of short stories; the novels Artificial Respiration (1980), The Absent City (1992), Burnt Money (1997); and criticism including Criticism and Fiction (1986), Brief Forms (1999) and The Last Reader (2005).

Piglia has received a number of awards, including the Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos (2011),^[2] Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras (2005), Premio Planeta (1997), Premio Casa de las Américas (1967).

He has been a long time resident of the United States,^[3] where he teaches Latin American literature at Princeton University.

Works

Essays

• 1986 Criticism and Fiction ("Crítica y ficción")
• 1993 Argentina in Pieces ("La Argentina en pedazos")
• 1999 Brief Forms ("Formas breves")
• 2000 Dictionary of the Novel of Macedonio Fernández ("Diccionario de la novela de Macedonio Fernández")
• 2005 The Last Reader ("El último lector")

Novels

• 1980 Artificial Respiration ("Respiración artificial")
• 1992 The Absent City ("La ciudad ausente")
• 1997 Burnt Money ("Plata Quemada")
• 2010 Nocturnal Target ("Blanco nocturno")

Short story collections

• 1967 The Invasion ("La Invasión")
• 1975 Assumed Name ("Nombre Falso")
• 1988 Perpetual Prison ("Prisión perpetua")
• 1995 Moral Tales ("Cuentos morales")

References

External links

• Listing at literature dot org