Author: Julio Cortazar
Date of birth: 26 August 1914
Date of death: 12 February 1984
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Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
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