César Aira
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He won the 2021 Formentor Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker International Prize.
César Aira
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He won the 2021 Formentor Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker International Prize.
Books by César Aira

Birthday
César Aira, Chris Andrews
Paperback, 2019
Birthday is among the very best of Aira—it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans
Ghosts
César Aira, Chris Andrews
Paperback, 2009
The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published by New Directions.
Artforum
César Aira, Katherine Silver
Paperback, 2020
One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of art
The Divorce
César Aira, Chris Andrews, Patti Smith
Paperback, 2021
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...
The Divorce
César Aira, Chris Andrews, Patti Smith
E Book, 2021
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...Ghosts
César Aira, Chris Andrews
E Book, 2009
The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published by New Directions.
How I Became a Nun
César Aira, Chris Andrews
E Book, 2007
"A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice...
Dinner
César Aira, Katherine Silver
E Book, 2015
Was it a nightmare—the result of a bad case of indigestion—or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town of Coronel Pringles?
The Conversations
César Aira, Katherine Silver
E Book, 2014
A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist
The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof
César Aira, Nick Caistor
E Book, 2017
Two completely different stories by the inimitable César Aira


