Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer ( born June 28, 1937 in Serodino, Santa Fe Province, † 11 June 2005 in Paris) was an Argentine writer.

Life

The son of Syrian immigrants, he studied law and philosophy, was a professor of literature in Argentina and emigrated to France in 1968. He received for his book " La Ocasion " 1988 the prestigious Spanish literary prize Premio Nadal and in France the Prix France Culture.

His most famous work is published in 2005 in Germany detective novel investigations.

Works

• En la zona, 1960
• Responso, 1964
• Palo y hueso, 1965
• La vuelta completa, 1966
• Unidad de lugar, 1967
• Cicatrices, 1968
• El limonero real, 1974
• La mayor, 1976
• Nadie nada nunca, 1980
• Narraciones, 1983
• El entenado, 1983, The German ancestor, Piper, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11691-4.
• GLOSA, 1986
• El arte de narrar, 1988
• La ocasión, 1988, dt The opportunity Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11567-5.
• El río sin Orillas, 1991
• Lo imborrable, 1993
• La pesquisa, 1994, German investigations, DuMont Literature and Art -Verl., Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7906-2.
• El concepto de ficción, 1997
• Las nubes, 1997
• La grande, 2005