title: César di Candia
text: # César di Candia
  
  César di Candia (born 24 October 1929 in Florida) is a Uruguayan journalist and writer.
  
  He developed a long-lasting career in several relevant periodicals: El País, Lunes, El Dedo, Guambia, Repórter, Hechos, La Mañana, Marcha, Búsqueda.
  
  He interviewed notorious politicians involved in the civic-military dictatorship. The interview to the retired General Hugo Medina in which he revealed giving orders to torture was a landmark in Uruguayan journalism.
  
  His literary works reflect his experience in written media.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  ### Non-fiction
  
  * Ni muerte ni derrota (1987, republished in 2006)
  * El viento nuestro de cada día (1989)
  * Los años del odio (1993)
  * La generación encorsetada (1994)
  * Grandes entrevistas uruguayas (editor, 2000)
  * Sólo cuando sucumba (2003)
  * Tiempos de tolerancia, tiempos de ira (2005)
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * El país del deja, deja (1996)
  * Resucitar no es gran cosa (1997)
  * Concierto para doble discurso y orquesta (2003)
  * El pleito de la Princesa de Gales y otros relatos (2016)
  