Álvaro Melián Lafinur

Álvaro Melián Lafinur (1889–1958) was an Argentine poet and critic. He was son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer Luis Melián Lafinur and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges. In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges' work, a translation of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, for the first time.