Álvaro Melián Lafinur
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Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur (16 May 1893 – 1958) was an Argentinian poet and critic. 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. In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper ''El País'', he published Borges' work, a translation of Oscar Wilde's ''The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince'', for the first time.


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1893 births 1958 deaths Argentine male poets Argentine literary critics Argentine people of Uruguayan descent 20th-century Argentine poets 20th-century Argentine male writers Date of death missing Writers from Buenos Aires {{Argentina-poet-stub