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

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and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges. In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper ''

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'', he published Borges' work, a translation of

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's '' The Happy Prince'', for the first time.

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