Born: 15-Sep-1914
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 8-Mar-1999
Location of death: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: Argentina
Executive summary: La invención de Morel

Friend of Jorge Luis Borges, collaborating with him under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq.

Wife: Silvina Ocampo (writer, b. 1903, m. 1944 d. 14-Dec-1993)
Daughter: Marta (b. 1954)

    French Legion of Honor 1981
    Cervantes Prize 1990

Author of books:
Prólogo (1929, short stories)
17 disparos contra el porvenir (1933, short stories)
La estatua casera (1936, short stories)
Luis Greve, muerto (1937, short stories)
La invención de Morel (1940, novel, trans. The Invention of Morel)
Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq, trans. Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi)
Plan de evasión (1945, novel, trans. A Plan for Escape)
Dos fantasías memorables (1946, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq)
Un modelo para la muerte (1946, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq)
La trama celeste (1948, short stories)
Las vísperas de Fausto (1949, short stories)
Los que aman, nunca odian (1949, novel, with Silvina Ocampo)
El sueño de los héroes (1954, novel, trans. Dream of Heroes)
Historia prodigiosa (1956, short stories)
Guirnalda con amores (1959, short stories)
Libro del cielo y del infierno (1960, novel, as H. Bustos Domecq)
El lado de la sombra (1962, short stories)
El gran serafín (1967, short stories)
Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq, trans. Chronicles of Bustos Domecq)
Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969, novel, trans. Diary of the War of the Pig)
Dormir al Sol (1973, trans. Asleep in the Sun)
Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq)
El héroe de las mujeres (1978, short stories)
La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (1985, novel, trans. The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata)
Historias desaforadas (1986, short stories)
The Russian Doll and Other Stories (1992, anthology, trans.)
Un campeón desparejo (1993, novel)
Selected Stories (1994, anthology, trans.)

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