- Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ˈbɔːrhɛs BOR-hess; 2 Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature
- Jorge Luis Borges | Biography, Books, Poems, Facts | Britannica
Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works became classics of 20th-century world literature
- 10 of the Best Jorge Luis Borges Stories Everyone Should Read
Influenced by a raft of writers including Edgar Allan Poe, G K Chesterton, Paul Valéry, and Franz Kafka, Borges wrote stories that combine mystery, fantasy, riddles, metafiction, and much else besides Below, we introduce ten of Borges’ very best short stories 1 ‘ The Garden of Forking Paths ’
- Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer? - BBC
Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever Everyone should read him, writes Jane Ciabattari Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first
- Home | Borges Center
This is the presentation on 24 March 2023 of a book of Iván Almeida's essays on Borges and philosophy Marina Martín and Dardo Scavino presented the book, and a rich discussion followed with Iván Almeida and others
- About Jorge Luis Borges | Academy of American Poets
Jorge Luis Borges, born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899, was an Argentine poet and prose writer Bilingual in English and Spanish at an early age, Borges was a well-read child despite not receiving formal schooling until he was nine years old
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Encyclopedia. com
What Borges does, in brief, is to emphasize the fantastical and imaginary, to foreground unreality itself as the essential stuff of storytelling, thereby making these traits prime movers of plot and character The intrusion of the unreal into our everyday existence is precisely what Borges's fiction is about
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