Famous People with Name Aira

Airat Gakilovich Khaliulla            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Airat Gakilovich Khaliulla: is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast.

César Aira            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

César Aira: is an Argentine writer and translator, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Argentine contemporary literature, in spite of his limited public recognition.He has published over fifty books of stories, novels and essays. Indeed, at least since 1993 a hallmark of his work is an almost frenetic level of writing and publication –two to four novella-length books each year.[1]Aira has often spoken in interviews of elaborating an avant-garde aesthetic in which, rather than editing what he has written, he engages in a “flight forward” (fuga hacia adelante) to improvise a way out of the corners he writes himself into. Aira also seeks in his own work, and praises in the work of others (such as the Argentine-Parisian cartoonist and comic novelist Copi), the “continuum” (el continuo) of a constant movement forward in the fictional narrative. As a result his fictions can jump radically from one genre to another, and often deploy narrative strategies from popular culture and “subliterary” genres like pulp science fiction and television soap operas; on the other hand, he frequently deliberately refuses to conform to generic expectations for how a novel ought to end, leaving many of his fictions quite open-ended.

Timo Airaksinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Timo Airaksinen: Professor of Moral Philosophy, and head of department, at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University. By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical. He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education. He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade. Airaksinen also regularly contributes to public debate in Finland and has had a column in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

Armi Airaksinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Armi Airaksinen: is a former Swedish Olympic swimmer. She competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, where she swam the 100 m butterfly and the 200 m butterfly.

Sos Airapetian            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Sos Airapetian: is a former field hockey player from Armenia, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Field Hockey Team from the Soviet Union at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. His name is also spelled as Sos Ayrapetyan.