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Katherine Singer Kovacs (1946–1989) was a professor of literature and film studies and editor of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She published extensively on French and Spanish literature, as well as Spanish-language film. An annual prize is offered in her name for outstanding books in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.
To those who are familiar with his writings, Borges’s transformation into a public personality is of supreme irony.
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