Luis Sagasti (born 1963) is an

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writer and

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. He was born in

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and studied history at the Universidad Nacional del Sur where he now teaches. He worked for eight years as a curator at the in Bahía Blanca. He published his first novel in 1999, and is best known for his 2011 novel ''Bellas Artes'' which was translated into English as ''Fireflies''.Bio
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Selected works

* ''El Canon de Leipzig'' (Ediciones Simurg, 1999) ''Leipzig's Canon'' * ''Los mares de la Luna'' (Editorial Sudamericana, 2006) ''Seas of the Moon'' * ''Bellas Artes'' (Eterna Cadencia, 2011) ''Fireflies'' * ''Perdidos en el espacio: Un ensayo sobre el fin de la historia en la Argentina'' (Capital Intelectual, 2011) ''Lost in Space'' * ''Maelstrom'' (Eterna Cadencia, 2015) * ''El arte de la fuga'' (treintayseis, 2016) * ''Una ofrenda musical'' (Eterna Cadencia, 2017) ''A Musical Offering'' * ''Cybertlön'' (Tenemos las Máquinas, 2018) * ''Por qué escuchamos a Led Zeppelin'' (Gourmet Musical, 2019) * ''Leyden Ltd.'' (Eterna Cadencia, 2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sagasti, Luis Living people Argentine writers 1963 births