Álvaro Melián Lafinur
Argentine poet and critic
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Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur[1] (16 May 1893 – 1958)[2] was an Argentine poet and critic.
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1893, he was the son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer Luis Melián Lafinur and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges.[3][4] In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges' work, a translation of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, for the first time.[5]
