Writer, T.V. Host. He was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, but grew up in Camilo Aldao, a town between the Provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe, which declared him an illustrious citizen in 2010. He was forced to make a living in Buenos Aires after being abandoned to his fate by his father. He worked as a telephone worker and harvester and even had to live on the street, although he never gave up writing. He finally managed to publish his first novel, "Su turno para morir," in 1976 and, due to several problems with publishers, he would have to wait until 1982 to see his second book on paper, "Aventuras de un novelista atonal." His first volume of short stories, "Matando enanos a garrotazos," was also put on sale that same year. He entered the newspaper "La Razón" in 1985 as a proofreader and from there he went on to write notes and bibliographical comments. In 1993 he received the Guggenheim Grant and in 2004 the Konex Award. He was the creator of a new genre, "delusional realism", described as "a reflection of his own runaway imagination, constituting a highly personal literary genre that draws on reality from a prism of exaggeration" and "a tool for looking at the things from another perspective or another space-time dimension." Some of his novels in which this literary genre can be noted are: "El jardín de las máquinas parlantes" (1993), "Beber en rojo, Drácula" (2001), "Gracias Chanchúbelo" (2000) and "Las cuatro torres de Babel" (2013). In his country he will also be remembered for hosting the program "Cuentos de terror con Alberto Laiseca" on the Argentine channel I-Sat in 2002. Laiseca died in December 2016 at the Barracas hospital in Buenos Aires. His delirious realism, his characteristic way of narrating and his multiple works will never die.