Piglia, Ricardo

Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an imprint specialised in hard-boiled crime novels by authors such as Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, David Goodis and Horace McCoy.