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Ricardo Piglia
Biography
Ricardo Piglia was born in Adrogué, Argentina, in 1941 and grew up in Mar de Plata, where he and his family moved after the fall of Perón, whom his father had supported. He studied history at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and then worked as a publisher, in particular managing a famous series of detective novels. He started writing in the 1950s but did not publish his first work – a collection of short stories – till 1967. He has gone on to write novels, short stories and essays. He lived for a long time in the United States, teaching at various universities, particularly Princeton, but has since returned to Argentina. He contracted ALS and died in 2017.
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Bibliography
1967 Jaulario (stories) (later updataed as: La invasión)
1975 Nombre falso (Assumed Name) (stories)
1980 Respiración artificial (Artificial Respiration) (novel)
1986 Crítica y ficción (literature)
1988 Prisión perpetua (stories)
1992 La ciudad ausente (The Absent City) (novel)
1995 Cuentos morales (stories)
1997 Plata quemada (Money to Burn) (novel)
1999 Formas breves (essays)
2000 Diccionario de la novela de Macedonio Fernández (literature)
2003 El pianista (The Pianist) (stories)
2005 El último lector (literature)
2007 Teoría del complot (essay)
2010 Blanco nocturno (Target in the Night) (novel)
2013 El camino de Ida (The Way Out) (novel)
2014 Antología personal
2015 Los años de formación (1957 – 1967) (Vol 1 of Los diarios de Emilio Renzi) (Diaries of Emilio Renzi, The Formative Years) (diaries)
2015 La forma inicial (essay)
2016 Las tres vanguardias (essay)
2016 Los años felices (Vol 2 of Los diarios de Emilio Renzi) (Diaries of Emilio Renzi, The Happy Years) (diaries)
2017 Un día en la vida (Vol 3 of Los diarios de Emilio Renzi) (Diaries of Emilio Renzi, A Day in the Life) (diaries)
2017 Escritores norteamericanos (stories)
2018 Los casos del comisario Croce (literature)
2019 Teoría de la prosa (literature)
2024 Borges por Piglia, (literature)