Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15, 1914, in Buenos Aires into a wealthy landowner family. In 1932, he met Jorge Luis Borges at Villa Ocampo, forming one of the most prolific and celebrated literary partnerships in world history, co-authoring parodic detective stories under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq.

In 1940, Bioy published his masterpiece La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel), a crystalline metaphysical science-fiction novel about a fugitive on an island haunted by holographic recordings, which directly inspired Alain Resnais' classic film Last Year at Marienbad. He followed with brilliant novels like El sueño de los héroes (1954) and Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969), awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1990.