It has been more than a hundred years since Julio Cortázar was born. The legendary Argentine writer was born in Ixelles (Belgium), the product of tourism and diplomacy, on August 26, 1914.
At Estandarte, we invite you to discover—or remember—ten interesting facts about the life and work of Julio Cortázar, who was much more than just the author of ‘Rayuela.’
Julio Cortázar did not win the Nobel Prize. A quick glance at Wikipedia is enough to see that Cortázar's list of awards is limited to the ‘Médicis Étranger’ in 1974, for ‘Libro de Manuel,’ and the posthumous Konex Prize of Honor.
Like Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Paul Valéry, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few illustrious figures without Nordic recognition, the author of ‘Historias de cronopios y Famas’ (1962), ‘Todos los fuegos el fuego’ (1966), and ‘62 Modelo para armar’ (1968) did not receive an award that, during Cortázar's most prestigious years of production—since the publication of ‘Rayuela’ in 1963—was given to the Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966), the Australian Patrick White (1973), and the Swedes Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (1974).
