Born in Santa Fé, Argentina, in 1937 and has lived in Paris since 1968. He lectures in the Arts Faculty at the University of Rennes (France). His vast body of narrative work, considered to be one of the foremost expressions of contemporary Argentine literature, includes five books of short stories: En la zona (1960), Palo y hueso (1965), Unidad de lugar (1967), La mayor (1976) and Lugar (2000), and eleven novels, including Cicatrices (1969), Nobody Nothing Never (1980), El entenado (1983), The Event (1986), La pesquisa (1994) and Las nubes (1997). He has also published essays such as El río sin orillas (1991), El concepto de ficción (1997) and La narración-objeto (1999). His poetry output is published in El arte de narrar (1977). The works of Juan José Saer have been translated into the principal European languages.
