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ǰá
[kaw
noun
Julio 1914–84, Argentine novelist and short-story writer; French citizen after 1981.
Example Sentences
It was casting director Isabel ǰá who first saw Cruz Guerrero’s potential, and in mid-2023, asked him to audition for the part.
You also feature many other literary references, such as Agathe shelving Julio ǰá’s “Hopscotch,” consulting the “I Ching,” namedropping Octavio Paz, and more.
There’s a perception that the current age of Latin American literature pales in comparison with the “boom” years of the 1960s and 1970s, the heyday of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio ǰá, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, etc.
The bundle of 60-year-old sheets bound together with metal fasteners bearing the inscription “Julio ǰá. Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. Paris. 1952” was the basis for the writer’s iconic “Cronopios and Famas” book, published in 1962.
The buyer paid $36,000, plus the auction house’s 17% commission, for the typewritten manuscript containing 46 short stories that make up the heart of what ended up becoming one of ǰá’s most famous works.
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