Julio Cortázar Writer

Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar (American Spanish: [ˈxuljo korˈtasar] (13px ); August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a "modern master of the short story" and, by Carlos Fuentes, "the Simón Bolívar of the novel."

Personal facts

Pseudonym	Julio Denis (in his first two books)
Birth date	August 26, 1914
Birth place	Belgium , Brussels , Ixelles
Nationality	Argentina
Date of death	February 12, 1984
Place of death	Paris , France

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award	Prix Médicis
genre	Prose poetry Narrative
influenced	Thomas Pynchon David Foster Wallace Georges Perec Roberto Bolaño Giannina Braschi
influenced by	Albert Camus Anton Chekhov Edgar Allan Poe Franz Kafka Fyodor Dostoyevsky Hans-Georg Gadamer James Joyce Jean-Paul Sartre Jorge Luis Borges Jules Verne Marcel Proust Stéphane Mallarmé Surrealism Horacio Quiroga Roberto Arlt André Breton Henry Miller Tristan Tzara Arthur Rimbaud José Lezama Lima Nouveau roman Hugo Wast
movement	Postmodern literature Latin American Boom
notable work	Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel) Blow-up and Other Stories