Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur[1] (16 May 1893 – 1958)[2] was an Argentinian poet and critic.
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1893, he was the son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer Luis Melián Lafinur and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges.[3][4] In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges' work, a translation of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, for the first time.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Alvaro Octavio MELIÁN LAFINUR" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros.
- ^ Imbert, Enrique Anderson (1969). Spanish-American Literature: A History. Wayne State University Press. p. 506. ISBN 0814313884. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ Croce, Marcela; Gallo, Gastón (2008). Enciclopedia Borges (in Spanish). Editorial Alfama. p. 316. ISBN 9788493624972. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ Gasquet, Axel (2016). El llamado de oriente: Historia cultural del orientalismo argentino (1900-1950) (in Spanish). EUDEBA. p. 211. ISBN 9789502358987. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ Benítez, Luis (2015). Borges para leer en 30 minutos (in Spanish). Ediciones LEA. p. 11. ISBN 9789877183412. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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