In honor of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ 112th birthday, Google is celebrating with a colorful new doodle. The search engine has replaced it’s official logo with a picture of the magic realism literary writer overlooking a complex scenery, which includes a library, labyrinths and staircases.
When users click on the doodle, information about the writer, who is credited with launching the science fiction genre and for writing such short story books as ‘Ficciones’ and ‘The Aleph’, is loaded. Borges was born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires. He was home schooled early in his life, but attended school in Geneva, Switzerland later in life. He returned to Argentina in 1921, when he began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals.
Borges’ short stories were known for including labyrinths, dreams, libraries and fictional writers. One of his most well-known stories was The Library of Babel, in which his library is so vast it’s made of countless hexagonal galleries.
Becoming known during his lifetime for his mythic riddlings, he said he’s not even sure he existed. “I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all that women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors,” he also said.
Borges died in Geneva on June 14, 1986, at the age of 86. He never won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he said “has become a Scandinavian tradition; since I was born they have not been grating it to me.”
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Written by: Karen Benardello
