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Julio Cortázar
This famous intellectual, writer and translator was born in the Argentinian Embassy in the city of Brussels, in Belgium, in 1914. His full name was Jules Florencio Cortázar. He lived a good part of his life in Paris, France, where he died in 1984. He is considered one of the greatest, most innovative and original writers of his time. He was a master of short stories and prose poetry. He’s been compared to authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges, who was close to him and helped him with the publication of some of his first texts. One of his most acclaimed works was the novel “Rayuela” (Hopscotch).
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