Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), an Argentine writer, was born in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. His father was an official in the Commercial Section of the Argentine Embassy in Belgium. By this time, the First World War had broken out, and the family traveled to Switzerland and Spain, returning to Argentina when Cortázar was 7 years old. Cortázar graduated from the Mariano Acosta Normal School in Buenos Aires in 1932 and studied literature three years later. From 1939 to 1945, he taught at the Bolivar Normal School and a rural middle school in the province of Enos Aires. Although this rural teacher's life isolated him from the world, it gave him ample time to read a large number of world literary masterpieces, which laid a solid literary foundation for him. In 1945 he returned to Buenos Aires and was employed by the Argentine Book Council. He moved to France in 1951 and worked as a translator for UNESCO. In 1968, he announced his acceptance of socialism in an open letter, believing that socialism was the only way to create new man. He won the Medici Literary Prize in 1974 and died in Paris in 1984.
It can be said that Cortázar is a late-blooming writer. Although he has been interested in literature since he was a child, wrote some poems, and published a collection of poems, the work he thought was truly worth publishing was 1948 The poetic drama "Kings" was published in 2011. After moving to France, he worked for UNESCO and engaged in literary creation. During this period, he published short story collections "The Cage" (1951), "The End of the Game" (1956), "The Secret Weapon" (1959), and "The Story of Cronobio and the Fama" (1962), "All Fire Is Fire" (1966), "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1967), etc.: novels "The Lottery" (1960), "Hopscotch" (1963), "Armed Type 60" (1968) and "The Chronicles of Manuel" (1973) and the collection of political essays "Nicaragua Full of Violence and Tenderness". During his illness, he was writing a collection of political essays about Argentina and a collection of poems entitled "About the Dawn". Unfortunately, he passed away before it could be published in the future.