Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur (16 May 1893 – 1958) was an

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poet and critic. Born in Buenos Aires in 1893, he was the son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer

Luis Melián Lafinur Luis Melián Lafinur (10 January 1850 – 27 February 1939) was a Uruguayan jurist, essayist, professor and politician. He was the son of Bernardo Melián and Florencia Lafinur. His son was the Argentine poet Álvaro Melián Lafinur. Biography He ...

and also the second cousin of writer

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. 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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