Aira

Born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949, César Aira is a novelist, essayist, and translator widely associated with contemporary Argentine literature. He later moved to Buenos Aires, where he built a literary career marked by unusual freedom, speed, and experimentation.

Aira is especially known for publishing a remarkable number of short books—novels, stories, and essays—and for a style that often begins in ordinary settings before veering into the strange, playful, or dreamlike. Alongside his fiction, he has also worked as a translator and has lectured on writers and artistic movements including Copi, Arthur Rimbaud, Constructivism, and Stéphane Mallarmé.

For listeners who enjoy bold ideas, sudden turns, and fiction that refuses to behave predictably, his work offers something memorable and distinctly his own.