Today's Google Doodle Honors Jorge Luis Borges
The Argentinian-born author, poet, and translator Jorge Luis Borges was born on this day in 1899. He was raised in Switzerland and Argentina, and died in 1986 in Switzerland.
Borges was a leading mind in science fiction as well as a pioneer in the magic realism genre.
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He is also known for writing fake reviews of works by authors who never existed. Of himself, he famously said, according to the Telegraph, “I am not sure that I exist, actually […] I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors.”
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