Manuel Mujica Lainez

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Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, biographer, art critic and journalist, born in Buenos Aires on 11 September 1910 and died at La Cumbre, Cordoba, on 21 April 1984. He became known for richly imagined fiction that blends history with the marvellous, beginning with story cycles about Buenos Aires such as Aqui vivieron (1949) and Misteriosa Buenos Aires (1950). His best-known novel, Bomarzo (1962), an imaginary life of a Renaissance Italian duke, became an opera by Alberto Ginastera for which he wrote the libretto. It was followed by El unicornio (1965), translated as The Wandering Unicorn, and El laberinto (1974). He also translated Shakespeare's sonnets and plays by Racine, Moliere and Marivaux, and his own books have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

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• The Wandering Unicorn (1965) · The Wandering Unicorn Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 finalist mention)

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