Álvaro Melián Lafinur
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Álvaro Melián Lafinur was an Argentine poet and critic. He was the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges
and in 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges for the first time: a translation of Oscar Wilde
's The Happy Prince.
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
and in 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges for the first time: a translation of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
's The Happy Prince.