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Borges, Jorge Luis

(Encyclopedia)Borges, Jorge Luis hôr´h loos´ bôr´hs [key], 1899–1986, Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b. Buenos Aires. Borges has been widely hailed as the foremost contemporary Spani...

ultraísmo

(Encyclopedia)ultraísmo: see Borges, Jorge Luis.

Batlle Ibáñez, Jorge Luis

(Encyclopedia)Batlle Ibáñez, Jorge Luis, 1927–2016, Uruguayan political leader, lawyer, and journalist, president of Uruguay (2000–2005). He was a member of the Colorado party, founded by his great uncle, Jos...

bestiary

(Encyclopedia)bestiary bs´chr [key], a type of medieval book that was widely popular, particularly from the 12th to 14th cent. The bestiary presumed to describe the animals of the world and to show what ...

Amado, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Amado, Jorge zhôr´zh mä´doo [key], 1912–2001, Brazilian novelist. Amado's works deal largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia. His early novels, such as The Viole...

Isaacs, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Isaacs, Jorge hôr´h ´säks [key], 1837–95, Colombian novelist. The son of a prosperous Englishman and a creole, Isaacs witnessed the ruin and premature death of his parents and the despoilmen...

Ubico, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Ubico, Jorge hôr´h oob´k [key], 1878–1946, president of Guatemala (1931–44). An army general, Ubico as president established financial stability and political order. He built an extensi...

Montt, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Montt, Jorge hôr´h mnt [key], 1846–1922, Chilean vice admiral, president of Chile (1891–96). He was a distant relative of Manuel and Pedro Montt. A leader in the ruinous civil war against Ba...

Manrique, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Manrique, Jorge hôr´h mänr´k [key], c.1440–1479, Spanish poet and soldier. Most of his verse is undistinguished, but his Coplas [couplets], on his father's death, are among the treasures o...

Icaza, Jorge

(Encyclopedia)Icaza, Jorge hôr´h kä´sä [key], 1906–78, Ecuadorian novelist. Icaza wrote in harsh, realistic terms against the exploitation of the Native American. His novel En las calles [in the streets]...