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Julio Cortázar

1914 - 1984

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Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered to be one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose, and short stories as well as the author of many groundbreaking novels, a prolific author who inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking classical molds. He is perhaps best known as the author of multiple narratives that attempt to defy the temporal linearity of traditional literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julio Cortázar is the 387th most popular writer (down from 378th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Writer.

Julio Cortázar is most famous for his novel, Hopscotch.

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Among writers, Julio Cortázar ranks 387 out of 7,302. Before him are Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Ali-Shir Nava'i. After him are Auguste Escoffier, Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, Sylvia Plath, Paul Éluard, and Octavio Paz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Julio Cortázar ranks 12. Before him are Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, and Marguerite Duras. After him are Octavio Paz, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Alec Guinness, Jiang Qing, Richard Widmark, and Michael Wittmann. Among people deceased in 1984, Julio Cortázar ranks 14. Before him are Truman Capote, James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, and Mikhail Sholokhov. After him are Johnny Weissmuller, Stanislaw Ulam, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, Martin Ryle, and Pyotr Kapitsa.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Julio Cortázar ranks 53 out of 1,190. Before him are Margaret of Parma (1522), Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), and Victor Horta (1861). After him are Albert Claude (1899), Samo (600), Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), Pepin of Landen (585), Adolphe Sax (1814), and Simon Stevin (1548).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Julio Cortázar ranks 3. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), and Georges Simenon (1903). After him are Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Marguerite Porete (1250), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Victor Serge (1890).

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