What is Ricardo Piglia?
[[File:Ricardo Piglia.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Piglia in August 2011]] '''Ricardo Piglia''' (November 24, 1941 &ndash; January 6, 2017) was an Argentine one of the most famous [[contemporary]] writers in [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literatura.org/Piglia/Piglia.html|title=Ricardo Piglia|publisher=Literatura Argentina Contemporánea|language=es|access-date=20 May 2011|archive-date=22 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622112044/http://www.literatura.org/Piglia/Piglia.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was born in [[Adrogué]] and raised in [[Mar del Plata]]. He was known for his [[fiction]] books ''Artificial Respiration'' (1980), ''The Absent City'' (1992), ''Burnt Money'' (1997); and criticism including ''Criticism and Fiction'' (1986), ''Brief Forms'' (1999) and ''The Last Reader'' (2005). Piglia died at 75 on January 6, 2017 in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina after suffering from [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] for three years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/01/06/actualidad/1483733441_558033.html|title=Muere Ricardo Piglia, un clásico contemporáneo de la literatura en español|last=País|first=Ediciones El|date=January 7, 2017|newspaper=EL PAÍS|language=es|access-date=2017-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1973661-murio-ricardo-piglia|title=Murió el escritor Ricardo Piglia|date=January 6, 2017|work=La Nacion|language=ES|access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-date=January 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106210445/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1973661-murio-ricardo-piglia|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Piglia, Ricardo}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:People from Mar del Plata]] [[Category:Argentine writers]] {{bio-stub}}