Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and he is the author of the fantastic novel The Invention of Morel. Born in 1914 and dying in 1999. He was born in Buenos Aires, in the upper-class neighbourhood of Recoleta, where he lived for most of his life, and his family's standing let him give himself wholly to literature. He wrote his first story at the age of eleven.