What do Jorge Luis Borges and William Kent Krueger have in common?
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Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; ]    ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, "Ficciones" ("Fictions") and "El Aleph" ("The Aleph"), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
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William Kent Krueger William Kent Krueger is an American author and crime writer, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O'Connor, which are set mainly in Minnesota. In 2005 and 2006, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. In 2014, his stand-alone book "Ordinary Grace" won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of 2013.
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The Zahir "The Zahir" (original Spanish title: "El Zahir") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the book "The Aleph and Other Stories", first published in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
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Chuck Klosterman Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written books and essays focused on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for "Esquire" and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for "The New York Times Magazine". Klosterman is the author of nine books, including two novels and the essay collection "".
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Benny Krueger Benny Krueger (June 17, 1899 – April 29, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist.
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The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (original Spanish title: "El acercamiento a Almotásim") is a fantasy short story written in 1935 by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow awaiting me, and upon which my reputation as a storyteller was to be based."
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Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur El Sur (English: The South ) (1990) is a TV movie written and directed by Carlos Saura and is a chapter in the Spanish TV series "Los Cuentos de Borges" (English: The Borges Tales ). Saura's 55-minute film is based on the short story El Sur by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.
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The Aleph (short story) "The Aleph" is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, "The Aleph and Other Stories", in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
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Hans Natonek Hans Natonek (28 October 1892 – 23 October 1963), pen name N. O. Kent, was a Jewish-Czech-German-American author and journalist.
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El Golem "El Golem" is a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, part of the 1964 book "El otro, el mismo" ("The other, the self"). The poem tells the story of Judah Loew (Judá León) and his giving birth to the Golem. In that poem, Borges quotes the works of German Jewish philosopher Gershom Scholem.
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William J. Richardson William John Richardson, S.J. (2 November 1920 – 10 December 2016) was an American philosopher, who was among the very first to write a comprehensive study of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, featuring an important preface by Heidegger himself. In addition to his specialization in Heidegger, Richardson was also, as a trained psychoanalyst, a specialist in the thought of Jacques Lacan. He was a Jesuit priest (entering the order on 14 August 1941, he was ordained a priest on 15 August 1953). He taught philosophy at Fordham University and since 1981, at Boston College, where he was, at the time of his death, emeritus professor of philosophy. He died in December 2016 in Weston, Massachusetts at the age of 96.
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Kevin Klose Kevin Klose (born September 1, 1940) is an American journalist, author, broadcast executive, and academic administrator.
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K-Hito K-Hito was the pseudonym of Ricardo García López (1890–1984), Spanish humorist, caricaturist, bullfighting critic, film producer, and magazine publisher. Considered part of the Generation of '27, he was the founder and director of four magazines, in the pages of which he created several characters, such as "Gutiérrez," "Macaco," "Currinche," and "Don Turulato."
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William Rodney Allen William Rodney Allen is an American author and former Professor of English at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He received his PhD from Duke University, and was a faculty member at LSMSA from the time the school first opened in 1983 until his retirement in 2011. He is married to Cindy Allen, a counselor at the school, and has two daughters, Emily and Claire, with her. He has many interests, which include and are not limited to playing guitar, reading, and cutting down Magnolia trees. He is also a Kurt Vonnegut fan and owns what is believed to be the last thing that Vonnegut wrote before his death in 2007, a postcard addressed to Allen.
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Funes the Memorious "Funes the Memorious"—original Spanish title "Funes el memorioso"—is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). First published in "La Nación" of June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology "Ficciones", part two ("Artifices"). The first English translation appeared in 1954 in "Avon Modern Writing No. 2".
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Jorge Reyes (writer) Jorge Reyes (March 9, 1972 – March 13, 2015) was a Cuban-born, American author known for authoring books in several genres. He is an honor graduate (1993) of Barry University, from which he received a B.A. in history, a B.S in political science, and a minor in literature. He died in Miami on March 13, 2015 after a short illness.
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Peter Krikes Peter Krikes is an American screenwriter who contributed to the screenplay for "" (1986).
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Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Robert Coates (critic) Robert Myron Coates (April 6, 1897 – February 8, 1973) was an American writer and a long-term art critic for the "New Yorker". He coined the term "abstract expressionism" in 1946 in reference to the works of Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
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Historia de la eternidad Historia de la eternidad (in English: "A History of Eternity") is the first essay book published by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, in 1936 (editio princeps).
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Washington Cucurto Santiago Vega (born in 1973 in Quilmes, Provincia de Buenos Aires), better known as Washington Cucurto, is an Argentinian writer of fiction, prose and poetry. He is the self-proclaimed creator of "realismo atolondrado" ('headlong realism'). His writing shares tendencies of American authors like Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller. Because of his subject matter and style, he is a cult author, especially among young readers. His work deals with negritude, poverty, homosexuality, and other fringe cultures. In 2002 he founded Eloísa Cartonera, an extremely successful non-profit publishing house specializing in handmade and affordable books from recycled materials.