Name Ricardo Piglia | Role Writer | |
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Movies Burnt Money, Foolish Heart Awards Romulo Gallegos Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Latin America & Caribbean Nominations Neustadt International Prize for Literature Books Respiracion artificial, The Absent City, El ultimo lector, Crítica y ficción, La invasión Similar People Jorge Luis Borges, Rodolfo Walsh, Marcelo Pineyro, Hector Babenco, Marcelo Figueras | ||
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Ricardo Piglia (November 24, 1941 – January 6, 2017) was one of the foremost contemporary Argentine writers.
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- Canal l ricardo piglia conversa con rodrigo fres n y canal l
- Charlando con Cervantes Ricardo Piglia
- Biography
- Personal life
- Awards
- Works
- References
Charlando con Cervantes - Ricardo Piglia
Biography
Piglia was born in Adrogué and raised in Mar del Plata, where he went to live in 1955 after the fall of Juan Perón, whom his father supported. He studied history in the National University of La Plata. He then went to work in various publishing houses in Buenos Aires and was in charge of the Serie Negra which published well known authors of crime fiction including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, David Goodis and Horace McCoy. A fan of American literature he was also influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, as well as by European authors Franz Kafka and Robert Musil.
He is 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).
Personal life
Piglia resided for a number of years in the United States, where he taught Latin American literature at Princeton University, but in 2011, after retirement, he decided to return with his wife to his home country, where he lived ever since.
In 2013 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Piglia died on January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina after struggling for a long time with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Awards
Piglia has received a number of awards, including the Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos (2011), Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras (2005), Premio Planeta (1997), Premio Casa de las Américas (1967).
In 2014 he won the Diamond Konex Award as the best writer of the last decade in Argentina.
Works
Essays
Novels
Short story collections