Donald Leslie Shaw (February 11, 1930 – January 30, 2017 in Italy) was a writer, literary critic and the Brown-Forman Professor of Latin American Literature at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

. He graduated from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

(B.A., M.A.) and

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

(Ph.D.). He lived in Italy, spending each academic semester in Charlottesville, Virginia. He wrote several books, including ''A Literary History of Spain: The Nineteenth Century'' and ''A companion to modern Spanish American fiction'' Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis, 2002. . Also, he wrote ''The generation of 1898 in Spain'', London, E. Benn, 1975. He wrote extensively on, and taught a course about, Argentine writer

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...

. Shaw died on January 30, 2017, in Bologna, Italy.

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