Jorge Luis Borge

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Jorge Luis Borge

• The Thinking Traveler

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Types of Literature

• 1944-fiction
• 1949-non-fiction
• 1960-poetry

• 1970-collaborations
• 1975-collection of short stories

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Borges effected writings today

• fantasy
• post-modern writers

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An Idea Manfascinated by space and time
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Awards and Accomplishments

• 1929 Cuanderno San Martin won Second Municipal
  Prize
• 1950 elected president of Sociedad Argentina de
  Ecriores (Argentine Writers Society)
• 1956 won National Prize for literature
• 1961 Borges and Beckett won the second ever
  International Publishers Prize

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Oh destiny of Borgesto have sailed across the
divers seas of the worldor across that single
and solitary sea of divers names,to have been a
part of Edinburgh, of Zurich, of the two
Cordobas,of Columbia and if Texas,to have
returned at the end of changing generationsto
the ancient lands of his forebears, to
Andalucia, to Portugal and to those
countieswhere the Saxon warred with the Dane and
theymixed their blood, the have wandered through
the red and tranquil labryrinth of London,to
have grown old in so many mirrors,to have sought
in vain the marble gaze of the statues,to have
questioned lithographs, encyclopedias,
atlases,to have seen the things that men see,
death, the sluggish dawn, the plains, and the
delicate stars, to have seen nothing, or almost
nothing except the face of a girl from Buenos
Airesa face that does not want you to remember
it. Oh Destiny of Borges, perhaps no stranger
than your own.
--Jorge Luis Borges
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