Jorge luis borges a literary biography

Nationality: Argentine. Born:Buenos Aires, 24 August 1899. Education: Collège de Genève, Switzerland; Cambridge University.

Jorge luis borges a literary biography

Family: Married 1) Elsa Astete Millán in 1967 (divorced 1970); 2) María Kodama in 1986. Career: Lived in Europe with his family, 1914-21; cofounding editor, Proa, 1924-26, and Sur, 1931; also associated with Prisma; columnist, El Hogar weekly, Buenos Aires, 1936-39; literary adviser, Emecé Editores, Buenos Aires; municipal librarian, Buenos Aires, 1939-43; poultry inspector, 1944-54; became blind, 1955; director, National Library, 1955-73; professor of English literature, University of Buenos Aires, 1955-70; Norton Professor of poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; visiting lecturer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1969.

President, Argentine Writers Society, 1950-53. Awards: Buenos Aires Municipal prize, 1928; Argentine Writers Society prize, 1945; National Prize for Literature, 1957; Ingram Merrill award