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Aira, César (1949- )
César Aira (Buenos Aires, 1949) is one of the most prolific authors in his country. He is a translator, novelist, playwright and essayist.

One of the most radically original, imaginative, intelligent and delirious narrators, his work has been published in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and his novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.

His extensive bibliography includes titles such as Ema, the captive (Belgrano, 1981), How I became a nun (Viterbo, 1993), The beggar (Mondadori, 1999), Nacipleaños (Mondadori, 2001), The magician (Mondadori, 2002), Canto castrato (Mondadori, 2005), Night of flowers (Mondadori, 2004), An episode in the life of a travelling painter (Mondadori, 2005), Parmenides (Mondadori, 2006), The congress of literature (Mondadori, 2012), The Ghosts (Mondadori, 2013), The Saint (Mondadori, 2015), Doctor’s Aira’s miraculous cures (Random House, 2015), On contemporary art. In Havana (Random House, 2016), Evasion and other essays (Random House, 2017) and Prins (Random House, 2018).

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