Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), an Argentine of French descent, was born and lived in Buenos Aires. He is considered one of the most important Latin American writers, and Jorge Luis Borges counted him among the greatest writers of the previous century. He authored seven novels: "The Invention of Morel" (1940), "A Plan for Escape" (1945), "The Dream of Heroes" (1954), "Diary of the War of the Pig" (1969), "Asleep in the Sun" (1973), "The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata" (1985), and "A Russian Doll and Other Stories" (1993), along with numerous short stories published in collections such as "The Celestial Plot" (1948), "The Side of the Shadow" (1962), "The Great Seraphim" (1967), "The Hero of Women" (1978), "Extravagant Stories" (1986), and others. Together with his close friend Borges, they co-authored—either under their real names or under grandiose pseudonyms derived from playful combinations of their ancestral surnames (Honorio Bustos Domecq, B. Suárez Lynch)—screenplays, anthologies, detective stories, and lively satires of modernism. Two years after the death of his beloved partner, Argentine short story writer and poet Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993), their extensive correspondence was published, offering an impressive "fresco" of the intellectual Buenos Aires ("Traveling," 1996). Casares was honored with the Grand Prize of the Argentine Writers' Society (SADE) in 1975, the French Legion of Honor in 1989, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1991.