Borges, a biographical volume of more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional details of the friendship shared by the two writers
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.
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culture · Argentine novelist (1914–1999) · writer · screenwriter · journalist · editor · photographer · translator · critic · also Adolfo Bioy Casares, Bioy, Bioy Casares, Aldofo Bioy Casares, Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares, Casares
Born 15 September 1914 · Died 8 March 1999 · Q298035
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1999· 5 entries
Died 1999-03-08.
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“Toda máquina está en proceso de extinción.”
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“Creyó por primera vez entender porqué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan.”
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“There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.”
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“El mismo lobo tiene momentos de debilidad, en que se pone del lado del cordero y piensa: Ojalá que huya.”
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded diamond Konex award (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Grenoble-III University (1992).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1990).
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Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1990).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1981).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE (1975).
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1954· 1 entry
One of Bioy Casares' mistresses gave birth in the United States to his daughter, Marta, who was subsequently adopted by his wife Silvina
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1940· 2 entries
Published the short novel The Invention of Morel, which marked the beginning of his literary maturity
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Bioy Casares married Silvina Ocampo, Victoria's sister, who was a painter as well as a writer
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1932· 1 entry
Met Jorge Luis Borges at Villa Ocampo, a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo
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1914· 2 entries
Born 1914-09-15.
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In Buenos Aires, the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch
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