Author. He is remembered as an award-winning Argentinian author of the 20th century. Throughout a career that spanned more than sixty years, he distinguished himself as one of Latin America's most outstanding writers. At times using the pseudonyms of Javier Miranda and Martin Sacastru, he wrote fiction, was a journalist, and a translator. Born an only child, he spent most of his life in a upper-middle class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. He attended the prestigious high school associated with the University of Buenos Aries. He started but did not finish degrees in law, philosophy, and literature. Going to the quiet rural area of his family's ranch, he studied on his own as he did not care for the classroom. He learned the languages of Spanish, French, English, and German. With funding from his father, he published his first book in 1929. In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he developed a life-time friendship, becoming professional colleagues, and often collaborated with him in his writings. They wrote six books together and created the character H. Bustos Domecq, the name used as the author of some of their lighter writings. In 1936 the two men were the editors of the literary magazine “Destiempo.” By 1940 he had published several books but did not get recognized until “The Invention of Morel,” which formed the basis for Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1961 film script for “Last Year at Marienbed.” The ABC TV series “Lost” airing from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010 was lightly based on his book too. The two men also edited in “The Greatest Detective Stories” in 1943, a two-volume book of Gaucho Poetry in 1955, and other works. He and his wife, the poet, Silvina Ocampo and Borges edited the 1940 “Anthology of Fantastic Literature” and in 1941 “Anthology of Argentine Poetry.” He wrote with his wife in 1946 “Those Who Love, Hate.” Some of his other novels: “Six Problems for Don Isidro” in 1942, “The Dream of the Heroes” in 1954, “Asleep in the Sun” in 1973”, and The Dream of Heroes” in 1987. By 1974 the two men had written four screen plays. Several of his novels have been translated to English. He was the recipient of the Cervantes Prize for Literature in 1990, which is the highest honors of Hispanic Letters; the Legion d' Honnuer da France in 1981; and Grand Prize of Honor of the Argentine Society of Writers in 1975.