Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar was born on 26 August 1914 in Brussels, to Argentine parents, and grew up in Banfield, near Buenos Aires. A schoolteacher, then a teacher in Bolívar, Chivilcoy and Mendoza, he left for Paris in 1951 on a scholarship and, at odds with Peronism, did not return, according to La Nación. A translator for UNESCO, he supported Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua. Widowed in 1982 by the Canadian writer Carol Dunlop, whom he had married the previous year, he died in Paris on 12 February 1984.

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• Short storiesLas armas secretasJulio Cortázar · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature