Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 - March 8, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer.
Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires, the grandson of a wealthy landowner and dairy processor. His parents were keen alphabet enthusiasts, which explains their choice of his initials "ABC". He wrote his first story (
Iris y Margarita) at the age of 11. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges and wrote many stories with him under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq.
Bioy and Borges were introduced in 1932 by Victoria Ocampo, whose sister, Silvina Ocampo, Bioy Casares was to marry in 1940. In 1954 they adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman; Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death, leaving two children. The estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love child of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy, shortly before Fabián Bioy died, aged 40, in February 2006.
He won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Légion d'honneur (1981), the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares).
Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. In 2006 Ediciones Destino published a book of Bioy's diary entries on Borges, numbering 1663 pages of anecdotes, witicisms and observations.
BIBLIOGRAPHY- La invención de Morel (1940) [Eng: The Invention Of Morel]
- Plan de evasión (1945) [Eng: A Plan For Escape]
- El sueño de los héroes (1954) [Eng: Dream For Heroes]
- Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969) [Eng: Diary Of The War Of The Pig]
- Dormir al Sol (1973) [Eng: Asleep In The Sun]
- La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (1985) [Eng: The Adventures Of A Photographer In La Plata]
- Un campeón desparejo (1993) [Eng: An Uneven Champion]
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