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A Selection from The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.
In 1961, Borges shared the International Publishers' prize with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, that he was to receive from the English-speaking world -- eventually, the list included both Oxford and Cambridge universities. 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. In 1980 he shared with Gerardo Diego the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary accolade.
Borges was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.
Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA)
To the outrage of his followers, Borges never did receive the Nobel prize. "Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition," Borges once quipped. "Since I was born they have not been granting it to me."
Several of Borges's short stories have been adapted for the movies, most recently Death and the Compass (1996), directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man).
seamarymoon
Posted November 30, 2011
Imagine reading a book written in another dimension, attached to life as we know it via string theory, where everything unordinary is extraordinary and ordinary at the same time. He has a gentleness when speaking of the unspeakable invisible most difficult tribulations of individual existence where somehow, everything smells like heaven.
Something scientific, spiritual, literary and entirely poetic fills the pages of Borges' work. It's like the wisdom of a shaman, a psychologist (far beyond time), a scientist, and a word master artist all in one.
If Borges were alive, I would go lay prostrate at his door.
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A Selection from The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.