About Álvaro Melián Lafinur
Lived 1889 – 1958 (aged 68–69). Álvaro Melián Lafinur was an Argentine writer, literary critic and poet.
Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur (16 May 1893 – 1958) was an Argentine poet and critic.
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. 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.
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Who was Álvaro Melián Lafinur?
Argentine writer
When was Álvaro Melián Lafinur born?
Álvaro Melián Lafinur was born in 1889 in Buenos Aires.
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Álvaro Melián Lafinur died in 1958.
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Álvaro Melián Lafinur was a writer, literary critic and poet.
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Álvaro Melián Lafinur was Argentine.
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