Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. His best known work is the novella The Invention of Morel (1940). Admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's postwar boom.