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Cortázar

American  
[kawr-tah-sahr] / kɔrˈtɑ sɑr /

noun

  1. Julio 1914–84, Argentine novelist and short-story writer; French citizen after 1981.


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It was casting director Isabel Cortázar who first saw Cruz Guerrero’s potential, and in mid-2023, asked him to audition for the part.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Cortázar is one of Latin America’s most celebrated writers, known for several groundbreaking works that included innovative narrative techniques that influenced future generations of writers.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Borges and Cortázar were my two favorite guys — I had posters of them when I was 17 years old.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022

This year, Sidra Bell teamed with the designer Christopher John Rogers in “Suspended Animation,” and Andrea Miller collaborated with the Colombian American designer Esteban Cortázar in “Sky to Hold.”

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

The so-called Latin-American Boom of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, which made international celebrities of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Di Benedetto’s compatriot Julio Cortázar, passed him by.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017