César di Candia (born 24 October 1929 in Florida) is a Uruguayan journalist and writer.
He developed a long-lasting career in several relevant periodicals: El País, Lunes, El Dedo, Guambia, Repórter, Hechos, La Mañana, Marcha, Búsqueda.
He interviewed notorious politicians involved in the civic-military dictatorship. The interview to the retired General Hugo Medina in which he revealed giving orders to torture was a landmark in Uruguayan journalism.
His literary works reflect his experience in written media.
Selected works
- Non-fiction
- Ni muerte ni derrota (1987, republished in 2006)
- 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)
References
- ^ Profession: Journalist (in Spanish)
- ^ Bio of César di Candia (in Spanish)
- Interview with César di Candia (in Spanish)
- It is necessary to write (in Spanish)
- Fiction does not work properly in Uruguay (in Spanish)
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