WRITER

Adolfo Bioy Casares

1914 - 1999

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Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ˈβjoj kaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolfo Bioy Casares has received more than 245,126 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Adolfo Bioy Casares is the 1,189th most popular writer (down from 1,173rd in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Notable Works

Diario de la guerra del cerdo
Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos
Gauchos
El sueño de los héroes
El Sueño de los héroes
La Invencion de Morel
Historias de amor
Argentine Love stories
Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi
Romance literature, Fiction, short stories (single author)
El sueño de los héroes
La Invencion de Morel
Criticism and interpretation
Plan de evasión
Fiction, general
La invención de Morel
Islands, Large type books, Fiction, general
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.
El sueño de los héroes
La Invencion de Morel
Criticism and interpretation
Plan de evasión
Fiction, general
Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi
Romance literature, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.
La invención de Morel
Islands, Large type books, Fiction, general

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 1,189 out of 7,302Before him are Jacint Verdaguer, Namdev, Meng Haoran, Samuel Butler, Sophia Tolstaya, and Laura Marx. After him are Marcus Manilius, Emmanuelle Arsan, Solomon Northup, Juan Rulfo, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Radegund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 50Before him are María Félix, Jean Tatlock, Boris Christoff, Peter Townsend, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, and Norman Borlaug. After him are William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, Alan Hodgkin, Renato Dulbecco, Shapour Bakhtiar, and Akira Nozawa. Among people deceased in 1999, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 40Before him are Hélder Câmara, Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhard Herzberg, John F. Kennedy Jr., Bernard Buffet, and Amintore Fanfani. After him are Sarah Knauss, Joe D'Amato, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Hermine Braunsteiner, Henri, Count of Paris, and George C. Scott.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 63 out of 1,154Before him are Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Ernesto Laclau (1935), Isabel Sarli (1929), Lalo Schifrin (1932), Alberto Ginastera (1916), and Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852). After him are Osvaldo Ardiles (1952), Bernardo Houssay (1887), Jorge Sampaoli (1960), César Milstein (1927), Tamara Bunke (1937), and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 3Before him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), and Ernesto Sabato (1911). After him are Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).