Jorge Luis Borges the famed Argentinian poet and writer, has been named this year’s winner of the “Jerusalem Prize,” the biennial award given by the Jerusalem Municipality to the author who has contributed most to “the freedom of the individual.” The 71-year-old poet, who shared the International Publishers Prize of 1961 with Samuel Beckett, and was Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, will be awarded the $2,000 prize in the presence of President Zalman Shazar at the opening of the Fifth International Book Fair here on April 19.
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