>Point taken.
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>I have been revisiting your point of origin, rereading Mario Vargas Llosa. He was Peruvian, not Argentinian, but close enough. What a great writer. Maybe that's why they gave him the Nobel Prize ;-)


Yes, he is Peruvian, he was even a candidate for president. About the Nobel prize, this is what it says in Wikipedia about Borges

"Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was nominated for the Prize several times but, as Edwin Williamson, Borges's biographer, states, the Academy did not award it to him, most likely because of his support of certain Argentine and Chilean right-wing military dictators, including Pinochet, which, according to Tóibín's review of Williamson's Borges: A Life, had complex social and personal contexts.[37] Borges' failure to win the Nobel Prize for his support of these right-wing dictators contrasts with the Committee honoring writers who openly supported controversial left-wing dictatorships, including Joseph Stalin, in the case of Sartre and Neruda.[38][39]"

One of the reasons I dislike the Nobel prize, the other is the peace prize given to the likes of Kissinger, Peres, Arafat, Obama and others.