Bonifacio del Carril (14 April 1911 – 23 December 1994) was an

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writer, lawyer, diplomat, and historian.

Life

After receiving his

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degree from the University of Buenos Aires, he held a number of political positions in Argentina, including Undersecretary of the Interior in 1944, Foreign Minister in 1962, and Special Ambassador to the United Nations in 1965. He wrote for

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for forty years and published over three hundred articles and sixty books and pamphlets on politics, history, and art. His work discussed many political and cultural topics, such as ballottage, open primary elections, and presidential term limits. He is known for his translations into Spanish of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's

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and Albert Camus' The Stranger.La historia de la primera edición de El Principito en español
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Publications

* ''Gericault, Las Litoras Argentinas'', Emece Editores, 1989

References

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