César di Candia
Uruguayan writer and journalist (1929–2025) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
César di Candia (24 October 1929 – 17 March 2025) was a Uruguayan journalist and writer.[1]
Life and career
Di Candia was born in Florida, Uruguay on 24 October 1929. He developed a long-lasting career in several relevant periodicals: El País, Lunes, El Dedo, Guambia, Repórter, Hechos, La Mañana, Marcha and Búsqueda.[2]
He interviewed notorious politicians involved in the civic-military dictatorship.[3] The interview with the retired General Hugo Medina in which he revealed giving orders to torture [who?][dead link] was a landmark in Uruguayan journalism.[4]
His literary works reflected his experience in written media.[2]
Di Candia died on 17 March 2025, at the age of 95.[5]
Selected works
- Non-fiction
- Ni muerte ni derrota (1987, republished in 2006)[1]
- 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)[6]
References
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