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César Aira

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Born: February 22 1949

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires and at the University of Rosario , and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina’s ten best books. Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship, in 2002 he was short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos prize, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

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César Aira

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Books from César Aira

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Ghosts

How I Became a Nun

The Literary Conference

Varamo

Shantytown

The Seamstress and the Wind

Dinner

The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

Conversations

Ema, la Cautiva

Las noches de Flores

Prins

The Proof

Cecil Taylor

El percherón mortal

On Contemporary Art

Las conversaciones

Мрамор

El testamento del mago tenor