Pablo Rojas Paz was an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 writer born in Tucumán. He published essays, poetry, short stories, novels and biographies. For his short story collection El patio de la noche (Night's Playground) he was awarded with the National Prize of Literature, in 1940.

Along with fellow writers Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

, Alfredo Brandán Caraffa and Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.-Life:...

, he founded the Proa magazine, in 1924.

Selected works

• Paisajes y meditaciones (1924) (essays)
• La metáfora y el mundo (1926) (essays)
• Arlequín (1927) (short stories)
• El perfil de nuestra expresión (1929) (essays)
• Hombres grises, montañas azules (1930) (novel)
• Hasta aquí nomás (1936) (novel)
• El patio de la noche (1940) (short stories)
• Alberdi, el ciudadano de la soledad (1940) (non-fiction)
• Biografía de Buenos Aires (1943) (non-fiction)
• Cada cual y su mundo (1944) (essays)
• El arpa remendada (1944) (short stories)
• Campo argentino (1944) (short stories)
• Raíces al cielo (1945) (novel)
• Hombre y momentos de la diplomacia (1946) (short stories)
• Los cocheros de San Blas (1950) (novel)
• Echeverría, pastor de soledades (1952) (non-fiction)
• Mármoles bajo la lluvia (1954) (novel)
• El canto en la llanura (1955) (essays)
• Simón Bolívar (1955) (non-fiction)
• Lo pánico y lo cósmico (1957) (essays)