Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia (2011)

Ricardo Piglia (born November 24, 1941 in Adrogué ( Province of Buenos Aires ), † January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

Ricardo Piglia came from a family who immigrated from Italy. As a 16-year-old he began to keep a life-work diary, which grew to 327 notebooks by the time he died. He studied a. a. History at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . He had to drop out of his doctoral studies without a degree when General Juan Carlos Onganía came to power in 1966. He first found a job at the Tiempo Contemporáneo publishing house . From 1971 to 1975 he was editor of the magazines Literatura y Sociedad and Los Libros . In addition to his role as editor - including the series Negra , in which translations of the crime novels Dashiell Hammetts , Raymond Chandlers , David Goodis' and Horace McCoys appeared - he also made a name for himself as a literary critic during this time.

Piglia lived mainly in the USA from 1986, taught at Harvard University and was professor emeritus for Spanish and Portuguese culture and language at Princeton University . In December 2011 he returned to Buenos Aires. He did not see his decades in the USA as exile, but - in his words - as an "existence between going and staying".

Awards (selection)

1967 Premio Casa de las Américas for the stories Jaulario
1997 Premio Planeta for the novel Plata quemada
2011 Premio Rómulo Gallegos for the novel Blanco nocturno
2011 Premio Hammett for the novel Blanco nocturno
2012 Gran Premio de Honor de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores
2013 Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas

Works

Novels

Respiración artificial , 1980.
- Artificial breathing, German by Sabine Giersberg; Wagenbach, Berlin 2002. ISBN 978-3-8031-3173-7 .
La ciudad ausente , 1992.
- The absent city, German by Leopold Federmair and María Alejandra Rogel Alberdi; Bruckner and Thünker, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3-905208-10-5 .
Plata quemada. Novela . 1997.
- Burning Zaster, German by Leopold Federmair; Wagenbach, Berlin 2001. ISBN 978-3-8031-2635-1 .
Blanco nocturno , 2010.
- Aiming into the white, German by Carsten Regling; Wagenbach, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-8031-3232-1 .
El camino de Ida , 2013.
- Munk, German by Carstem Regling; Wagenbach, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-8031-3269-7 .

stories

Nombre falso , 1975.
- therein: Wrong name - homage to Roberto Arlt, German by Sabine Giersberg. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-3184-7 .
Jaulario , 1967.
Prisión perpetua , 1988.
Cuentos morales , 1995.
El pianista , 2003.

Scripts

Héctor Babenco : Corazón iluminado , 1996.
David Lipszyc : El Astillero , 2000.
Fernando Spiner : La sonámbula. Recuerdos del futuro , 1998.

Essays

Crítica y ficción , 1986.
Formas breves , 1999.
- Short forms. Babylon, Borges, Buenos Aires, German by Elke Wehr ; Berenberg, Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-937834-18-4 .
Diccionario de la novela de Macedonio Fernández , 2000.
El último lector , 2005.
- The last reader, German by Leopold Federmair; Klever, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-902665-23-2 .
Teoría del complot , 2007.

literature

Edgardo Berg: Poéticas en suspenso. Migraciones narrativas en Ricardo Piglia, Andrés Rivera y Juan José Saer . Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires 2002, ISBN 950-786-342-7 .
Leopold Federmair: micro-narratives . In: Ders: Buenos Aires, Word and Flesh. Twelve essays . Klever-Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-902665-22-5 . Pp. 44-68. - About Germán García and Ricardo Piglia.
Jorge Fornet: El escritor y la tradición. Ricardo Piglia y la literatura argentina . Fondo de cultura económica, Buenos Aires 2007, ISBN 978-950-557-704-0 .
Rita de Grandis: Polémica y estrategias narrativas en América Latina. José María Arguedas , Mario Vargas Llosa , Rodolfo Walsh , Ricardo Piglia . Viterbo, Rosario 1993, ISBN 950-845-012-6 .
Juan C. Martini (Ed.): Los mejores cuentos argentinos de hoy. Abelardo Castillo , Julio Cortázar , Ricardo Piglia, Haroldo Conti , Humberto Costantini , Germán Rozenmacher , Alicia Jurado , Pedro Orgambide , Miguel Briante , Daniel Moyano , Alberto Vanasco , Antonio Dal Masetto . Rayuela, Buenos Aires 1971.
Daniel Mesa-Gancedo: Ricardo Piglia. La escritura y el arte nuevo de la sospecha . Universidad, Sevilla 2006, ISBN 84-472-1053-7 .
Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 101 f.
Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico: Ricardo Piglia. Una poética sin límites . IILI Publ., Pittsburgh, Pa. 2004, ISBN 1-930744-19-6 .

Web links

Commons : Ricardo Piglia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Ricardo Piglia in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Ricardo Piglia in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
Ricardo Piglias page on Princeton University website

Individual evidence

↑ Falleció Ricardo Piglia on InfoRegión.com.ar from January 6, 2017
↑ Volker Breidecker: In Borges' hand. The Argentine author Ricardo Piglia is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 9, 2016, p. 11.
^ ^A ^b Paul Ingendaay : Man made of words. On the death of the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 9, 2017, p. 9.

personal data
SURNAME	Piglia, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Adrogué ( Province of Buenos Aires )
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 2017
Place of death	Buenos Aires

[1] Falleció Ricardo Piglia on InfoRegión.com.ar from January 6, 2017

[2] Volker Breidecker: In Borges' hand. The Argentine author Ricardo Piglia is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 9, 2016, p. 11.

[Paul_Ingendaay-3] A ^b Paul Ingendaay : Man made of words. On the death of the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 9, 2017, p. 9.