ricardo piglia (november 24, 1941 – january 6, 2017) was an argentine one of the most famous contemporary writers in argentina. 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).