César di Candia
# César di Candia

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)
