ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Argentina

Author · Argentina

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Died in 1999

Adolfo Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires on 15 September 1914, the only child of a well-to-do family, according to escritores.org. In 1932, at the home of the woman of letters Victoria Ocampo Aguirre, he met the writer Jorge Luis Borges; they would write together under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Lynch. In 1940 he married a woman writer, the sister of his hostess. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded in 1990 and presented in 1991, he died in Buenos Aires on 8 March 1999.

In the catalogue 1