Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 - March 18, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer.

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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.

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His best known novel is La invenci?n 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.

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He won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine society of writers, 1975), the French L?gion d'honneur (1981), the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcal? de Henares).

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Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

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