Google's Doodle for today (24.08.2011)

Google's Doodle for today (24.08.2011)



Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires.

Google Doodle Celebrates the 112th Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges.

He published a lot of books already including his most famous books Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949). Sadly, he died because of liver cancer in 1986. He has a real name of Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo.

In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers’ Prize, the Prix Formentor. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986.