Daniel Balderson receives literary award

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Daniel Balderson has been named co-winner of the 2019 Richard Finneran Award for his book about Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges, titled “How Borges Wrote.”

Balderson is a Mellon Professor of Modern Languages in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

The award is given by the Society for Textual Scholarship to recognize the best edition of book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language.

Balderson’s book is “the first and only attempt at a systematic and comprehensive study of the trajectory of Borges' creative process.”