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)