![]() ![]() His books of essays include Works on Paper, Outside Stories, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, and Karmic Traces. ![]() ![]() Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.Įliot Weinberger (editor/co-translator) is an essayist and translator. ![]() In 1980 he shared with Gerardo Diego the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish world’s highest literary accolade. In 1971 he also received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given one of Mexico’s most prestigious cultural awards, the Alfonso Reyes Prize. The Ingram Merrill Foundation granted him its Annual Literary Award in 1966 for his “outstanding contribution to literature.” In 1971 Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (eventually the list included both Oxford and Cambridge), that he was to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1961 Borges shared the International Publisher’s prize with Samuel Beckett. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays, and short stories before his death in Geneva in June 1986. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1989 and was educated in Europe. ![]()
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