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JULIO CORTÁZAR (1914-1984) was an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Born in Belgium, he spent most of his childhood in Buenos Aires, and moved to France as an adult. Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.
ILAN STAVANS teaches at Amherst College. Author of The Hispanic Condition and Spanglish, he is editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, and The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories. Born in Mexico, he was the host of a PBS television program from 2001 to 2006 called Conversations with Ilan Stavans, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, and Chile's Presidential Medal. |
