Cortázar
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Baudizzone, a personal friend of the writer, who at the time had only published his first novel, “Bestiario,” never responded, according to Cortázar scholars.
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
Mr. Mohaiemen’s fictional version of the tale is magically existential — like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett mixed with Julio Cortázar, threaded through the needle of colonialism and 21st-century security states.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018
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
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