Juan Rodolfo Wilcock was an Argentinian-Italian author, poet, critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli.

After writting some poetry books, published in his homeland, he left Argentina because his opposition to Juan Domingo Perón's government. Soon before leaving, he learned some italian, then he moved to Italy, where he lived in very humble conditions. There, aside from his translations, that made possible sustain himself in a foreign country, he started writing fiction in italian.

This is how, in the 1970s, he published his most remarkable works, such as La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, Il libro dei mostri and Lo stereoscopio dei solitari, books largely inspired by Borges' humoristic and modernist style.