Ricardo Piglia is one of the foremost contemporary Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 writers, 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), Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras (2005), Premio Planeta

Premio Planeta

The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish . It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta....

 (1997), Premio Casa de las Américas

Casa de las Américas

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 (1967).

He has been a long time resident of the United States, where he teaches Latin American literature

Latin American literature

Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

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.

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")

External links

• Listing at literature dot org