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    César Aira

    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 100 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 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 addition to winning the 2021 Formentor Prize, he has received a Guggenheim scholarship, and was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos prize and the Booker International Prize.

     

    César Aira

    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 100 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 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 addition to winning the 2021 Formentor Prize, he has received a Guggenheim scholarship, and was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos prize and the 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

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