Cesar Aira
Author · 68 books
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 (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), 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.
Series
Books
The Literary Conference
2006
El gran misterio
2018
Ema, the Captive
1981
Yo era una mujer casada
2010
La guerra de los gimnasios
1993
El sueño
1998
Cyber Adventure
2009
The Linden Tree
2003
Continuación de ideas diversas
2014
On Contemporary Art
2018
Sobre el arte contemporáneo seguido de En La Habana
2013
The Famous Magician
2013
Cómo me reí
2005
Margarita
2013
The Seamstress and the Wind
1994
The Little Buddhist Monk
2006
Three Novels
2013
Evasión y otros ensayos
2017
Los dos payasos
2004
Diario de la hepatitis
1993
The Hare
1991
Relatos reunidos
2013
El error
2010
En el pensamiento
2024
Las noches de Flores
2004
Copi
1991
Cecil Taylor
2011
The Musical Brain
And Other Stories
2005
How I Became a Nun
1993
Yo era una chica moderna
2004
Alejandra Pizarnik (El Escribiente
Ensayo)
1998
Birthday
2001
La princesa primavera
2005
Yo era una niña de siete años
2005
Artforum
2014
Shantytown
2002
El jardinero, el escultor y el fugitivo
2022
Actos de caridad
2014
Dinner
2006
Trzy opowieści
2019
La Sala
Una novela francesa
2025
Fulgentius
2020
Fragmentos de un diario en los Alpes
2002
Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos
2001
Embalse
1992
Varamo
1999
Festival & Game of the Worlds
2024
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
1996
Eterna Juventud
2017
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
2000
Parménides
2006
Diez novelas de César Aira
2019
The Divorce
2010
El mago
2002
Ghosts
1990
El mármol
2011
La prueba
1992
El llanto
1992
Conversations
2007
Canto castrato
1984
Prins
2018
Una novela china
1987
El juego de los mundos
1998
El náufrago
2011
El presidente
2019
El santo
2015
The Spy
2013
Los fantasmas
2020
