Cortázar was awarded the Prix Médicis shortly after moving to Paris in 1951, among other honors. In addition to writing short stories and novels, he published several collections of poetry and other interdisciplinary texts such as La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds) (1967) and 62, modelo para armar (62: A Model Kit) (1968), in which he conflated several genres. Some of his most famous stories include “Casa tomada” (“House Taken Over”) (1951), and “Las babas del diablo” (“Blow-Up”) (1959), which inspired the Academy Award winning film by the same name. He also wrote ten collections of short stories, among them Bestiario (Bestiary) (1951), Las armas secretas (The Secret Weapons) (1959) and Cronopios y Famas (Cronopios and Famas)(1962). He is the author of five novels, including Los premios (The Winners) (1960), Libro de Manuel (A Manual for Manuel) (1973) and Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963). He acquired French citizenship years after seeking political exile. Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1914 to Argentine parents, and was brought up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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