César di Candia

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 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

  1. ^ a b Profession: Journalist (in Spanish)
  2. ^ a b Bio of César di Candia (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Interview with César di Candia (in Spanish)
  4. ^ It is necessary to write Archived 2017-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  5. ^ "Falleció a los 95 años el periodista y narrador César di Candia". Montevideo Portal. 17 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  6. ^ Fiction does not work properly in Uruguay (in Spanish)


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