THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.
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JORGE LUIS BORGES
Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986 was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones Fictions and El Aleph The Aleph . He received a BA from the College of Geneva. He was also appointed the director of the National Public Library and professor of English literature at the University of Buenos Aries in 1955. During his lifetime, Borges received the first Prix International Formentor Prize which he shared alongside Samuel Beckett in 1961. He also received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in 1971.
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BORGES JORGE LUIS
Nació en Buenos Aires el 24 de agosto de 1899. Entre 1914 y 1921 vivió con su familia en Europa. A su regreso funda las revistas Prisma y Proa, y publica Fervor de Buenos Aires 1923 e Historia universal de la infamia 1935 . Autor de poesía, cuento, ensayo y trabajos en colaboración, en las décadas siguientes su obra crece, es traducida a más de veinticinco idiomas y alcanza reconocimiento mundial. Fue presidente de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, director de la Biblioteca Nacional, miembro de la Academia Argentina de Letras y profesor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Recibió importantes distinciones de gobiernos extranjeros, y el título de doctor honoris causa de las universidades de Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Michigan, Santiago de Chile, La Sorbona y Harvard. Obtuvo, entre otros galardones, el Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina, 1956 y el Cervantes España, 1979 . Considerado uno de los más importantes escritores en lengua hispana de la historia de la literatura, murió en Ginebra el 14 de junio de 1986.
