Joaquin Salvador Lavado, known as ‘Quino’, son of Andalusian Spanish immigrants, is born in the city of Mendoza (Argentina) on July 17. However, his birth date is incorrectly registered in the official records as August 17.
From the time he was born, he was called Quino in order to distinguish him from his uncle Joaquín Tejón, a painter and commercial artist, with whom Quino discovered his own life vocation at the age of three.
Quino begins primary school where he discovers that his real name is Joaquin and he lives through some of the same difficulties faced by one of his characters, Felipe: “I was so anxious in the first three months that I had bad grades but I finished the year with pretty good grades, although I was never number one and that made me angry.”
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