Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar was born in 1914 in Brussels to Argentine parents and grew up in a suburb of Buenos Aires. He worked as a schoolteacher and translator before his first short stories attracted the attention of Jorge Luis Borges, who published his story "House Taken Over" in a literary journal. Increasingly opposed to the Perón government, Cortázar moved to Paris in 1951, where he would live for the rest of his life, working as a translator for UNESCO while producing a torrent of fiction that reshaped Latin American literature. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Hopscotch.