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Born April 2, 1946Quincy, Massachusetts ( 1946-04-02 ) Occupation Writer, Translator, Activist, Photographer Notable works Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1983) Died November 2, 1982, Paris, France Spouse Julio Cortazar (m. 1981–1982) People also search for Julio Cortazar, Ugne Karvelis, Julio Jose Cortazar, Maria Herminia Descotte, Aurora Bernardez | ||
Wellness Woman: Guest Carol Dunlop
Carol Dunlop (April 2, 1946 – November 2, 1982) was a writer, translator, activist, and photographer. She is mostly known for being the wife of the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar with whom she co-wrote The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1982).
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Biography
Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, she was the oldest of two daughters born to Daniel M. and Jean (Ayers) Dunlop. She graduated from McGill University. She married writer Francois Hebert, with whom she had one son, Stephane (b. 1968). The couple settled in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the 1970s Hebert and Dunlop divorced, and Dunlop eventually moved to Paris.
Dunlop met the writer and activist Julio Cortazar in Canada in 1977 and married him in 1981. She accompanied Cortazar on trips to a number of destinations, and sometimes traveled without him. Among the places she visited in the course of her political activism were Nicaragua and Poland; in the latter country she participated in a congress of solidarity with Chile. She died two years before Cortazar and is buried with him in the Cimetiere de Montparnasse.
Cause of death
In her book Julio Cortazar, the Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi, who was a friend of Cortazar and Dunlop, stated that both died of AIDS. Peri Rossi maintained that Dunlop had sexually contracted AIDS from Cortazar, who had himself contracted the illness from a blood transfusion he received a few years earlier in the south of France. According to Cortazar biographer Miguel Herraez, however, Dunlop died of "bone marrow failure" ("aplasia medular") and Cortazar of leukemia.