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 International Booker Prize. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

"Dense, unpredictable confections delivered in a plain, stealthily lyrical style capable of accommodating his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaist incongruities." -- Michael Greenberg "Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in Spanish today, and should not be missed." -- Natasha Wimmer

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 International Booker Prize. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

"Dense, unpredictable confections delivered in a plain, stealthily lyrical style capable of accommodating his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaist incongruities." -- Michael Greenberg "Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in Spanish today, and should not be missed." -- Natasha Wimmer

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 International Booker Prize. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

"Dense, unpredictable confections delivered in a plain, stealthily lyrical style capable of accommodating his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaist incongruities." -- Michael Greenberg "Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in Spanish today, and should not be missed." -- Natasha Wimmer