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Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires. He wrote his first story ("Iris y Margarita") at the age of 11. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges and wrote many stories with him under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq. Bioy Casares and Borges were introduced in 1932 by Victoria Ocampo, whose sister, writer Silvina Ocampo, Bioy Casares was to marry in 1940. Their only child, Marta, was born in 1954. Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jorge Luis Borges (, bôr′hÄ•s) (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. ... H. Bustos Domecq is a pseudonym used for several collaborative works by the Argentinian writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Victoria Ocampo (April 7, 1890? - January 27, 1979) was an Argentine intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as la mujer más argentina (the most Argentine woman). Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her... Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994) was a prominent Argentine intellectual and poet. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His best known novel is La invención de Morel. It is the story about a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island which was said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease. While struggling to comprehend why everything seemed to repeat, he realized that all the people he saw there were actually recordings made with a special machine invented by Morel which was able to record not only three dimensional images, but also the voices and the smell making it indistinguishable to reality. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Jump to: navigation, search Look up fantasy on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For the state of pronounced fear, see terror. ...

He won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine society of writers, 1975), the French Légion d'honneur (1981), the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares). Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Knights badge of the Legion of Honour The Légion dhonneur (Legion of Honor (AmE) or Legion of Honour (ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry first established by Napoléon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, on May 19, 1802. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in Spanish language. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alcalá de Henares is a Spanish city. ...

Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

Works

Novels

• La invención de Morel (1940, translated into English as The Invention of Morel, ISBN 1590170571)
• Plan de evasión (1945, translated into English as A Plan for Escape, ISBN 1555971075)
• El sueño de los héroes (1954, translated into English as Dream of Heroes, ISBN 0704326345)
• Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969, translated into English as Diary of the War of the Pig, ISBN 0070737428)
• Dormir al Sol (1973, translated into English 1978 as Asleep in the Sun, ISBN 0892550309)
• La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (1985, translated into English as The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, ISBN 0747507988)
• Un campeón desparejo (A Fragile Champion, 1993)

Books of Stories

• Prólogo (Prologue, 1929)
• 17 disparos contra el porvenir (17 Shots Against the Future, 1933)
• La estatua casera (The Household Statue, 1936)
• La trama celeste (The Celestial Plot, 1948)
• Luis Greve, muerto (Luis Greve, Deceased, 1937)
• Las vísperas de Fausto (Faust's Eve, 1949)
• Historia prodigiosa (A Remarkable History, 1956)
• Guirnalda con amores (Guirnalda with Loves1959)
• El lado de la sombra (The Shady Side, 1962)
• El gran serafín (The Great Seraph, 1967)
• El héroe de las mujeres (The Hero and the Women, 1978)
• Historias desaforadas (Colossal Stories, 1986)

Generally, these Spanish-language collections have not been systematically translated into English. English language collections include:

• The Russian Doll and Other Stories (ISBN 0811212114)
• Selected Stories (ISBN 0811212750)

Letters

• En viaje (Travelling, 1996), letters to Silvina

Works in collaboration

With Jorge Luis Borges

• Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942, translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, ISBN 0525480358)
• Dos fantasías memorables (Two Memorable Fantasies, 1946)
• Un modelo para la muerte (A Model for Death, 1946)
• Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, translated into English as Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, ISBN 0525475486)
• Libro del cielo y del infierno, (The Book of Heaven and Hell, 1960)
• Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (New Stories by Bustos Domecq, 1977)

Dos fantasías memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies. The first commercial printings were in 1970.

With Silvina Ocampo

• Los que aman, nunca odian (Those Who Love, Never Hate, 1946)

Screenplays

With Jorge Luis Borges

• Los Orilleros (1955, The Hoodlums)
• El Paraíso de los Creyentes (1955, The Paradise of the Believers)
• Invasión (1969, Invasion)

External link

• Spanish-language page on Bioy Casares, including links to some passages from his works
• Review of 'The Invention of Morel'