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| | Who is Jorge Luis Borges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 24, 1899, Jorge Luis Borges was a precocious child, spending much of his youth scouring the shelves of his father’s library, losing himself in great works of literature such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, and his particular favorite, the |
 | | Young Jorge completed his education in Europe and his immersion in European literature and philosophy is evident in the innumerable allusions of his stories and essays. |
 | | Blindness did not prevent Borges from continuing to compose verse, essays, and stories, and his diligence and talent were finally appreciated internationally in 1961, when he shared with Samuel Beckett the International Publisher's Prize. |
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