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20 Apr 08
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The Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets.
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Borges was named director of the National Library in Buenos Aires. In that same year his sight deteriorated to the point where he became almost totally blind.
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In 1961 Borges shared with Samuel Beckett the $10,000 International Publishers Prize, and world recognition at last began to come his way.
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From the 1920s on he was afflicted by a growing hereditary blindness.
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His blindness was total by the mid 1950s and forced him to abandon the writing of long texts and begin dictating his works.
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he has been considered one of the most outstanding figures in contemporary world literature. Most of Borges's stories belong to the genre of fantastic literature. He has borrowed a good number of stylistic traits from Edgar Allen Poe and Franz Kafka
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Borgès, Jorge Luis (1899-1986) Argentinian writer whose imaginative works often centred on philosophical themes of memory, time, authenticity, and fate. The first collection of these stories was The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) followed by Artifices and retitled Ficciones in 1944. Borges was a founding figure of the ‘magical realist’ movement in South American fiction, and of postmodernism in literature.
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His short stories were especially popular, combining metaphysics and fantasy.
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Borges was named director of Argentina's National Library, was a professor of English at the
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he became an exponent of ultraísmo, a poetic movement that followed the decline of modernismo after World War I. Ultraísmo advocated the use of bold images and daring metaphors in an attempt to create pure poetry, divorced not only from the past but from reality. Borges, who brought the movement to Argentina, never adhered strictly to its tenets. He helped to found three avant-garde journals and was director of the National Library and professor of English at the Univ. of Buenos Aires.
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In 1961, he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. While Beckett was well-known and respected in the English-speaking world, and Borges at this time remained unknown and untranslated, English-speaking readers became curious about the other recipient of the prize.
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