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Writing from Exile

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Writing from Exile

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Julio Cortazar left Argentina for Paris in 1951; his anti-Peronist views prompted the move, and he lived there for the rest of his life while continuing to write and publish in Spanish for an Argentine and wider Latin American readership. His physical distance from Buenos Aires did not distance him from Argentine subject matter, and later in his life he became an outspoken supporter of leftist causes across Latin America, including Cuba's and Nicaragua's revolutionary governments, donating the royalties from his novel A Manual for Manuel to the families of political prisoners.

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His anti-peronist views prompted him to move to Paris in 1951.
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He donated the royalties of A Manual for Manuel to the families of political prisoners and became a supporter of the Cuban and Nicaraguan governments.
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    Julio Florencio Cortazar (26 August 1914 - 12 February 1984) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
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