biography
pronunciation:
[baw(r)khes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1986)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied there and at Geneva and Cambridge. From 1918 he was in Spain, where he was a member of the avant-garde Ultraist literary group, returning to Argentina in 1921. His first book of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires, was published in 1923, and in 1941 appeared the first collection of the intricate and fantasy-woven short stories for which he is famous. Later collections include Ficciónes (1944, 1946, Fictions), El Aleph (1949), and El Hacedor (1960, trans Dreamtigers). |
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