He died at his Villa "El Paraíso" (The Paradise) in Cruz Chica, Córdoba Province, in 1984. In 1982 he received the French's Legion of Honor. Mujica Lainez was a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and the Academy of Fine Arts. 1936 was also the year of the 25-year-old's first publication, Glosas castellanas. They had two sons (Diego and Manuel) and a daughter (Ana). This permitted him to marry in 1936, his bride being a beautiful patrician girl, Ana de Alvear, descended from Carlos María de Alvear. In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica Lainez family was not notably well-off by this time, and he went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic. He completed his formal education at the Colegio Nacional de San Isidro, later dropping out of law school. As was traditional at the time, the family spent protracted periods in Paris and London so that Manuel, known proverbially and famously as "Manucho", could become proficient in French and English. His parents belonged to old and aristocratic families, being descended from the founder of the city, Juan de Garay, as well as from notable men of letters of 19th century Argentina, such as Florencio Varela and Miguel Cané.
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