- Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia
According to a study by Antonio Andrade, Jorge Luis Borges had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather, Francisco, was born in Portugal in 1770, and lived in Torre de Moncorvo, in the north of the country, before he emigrated to Argentina, where he married Carmen Lafinur
- 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
- Jorge Luis Borges | The Poetry Foundation
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry
- Why Borges | Borges Center
This Borges style combines, and sometimes wisely jams, usually incompatible genres A deep philosopher of poetry and poet of philosophy, Borges presents each of his writings as an ontological riddle And reciprocally, a borgesian story or poem often assumes the patterns of a treatise
- 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
- Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction | Oxford Academic
A probing, engaging examination of the work of Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) in the context of Argentinian, Latin American, and world literature, from his beginnings as an avant-gardist to his consecration as one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century
- Jorge Luis Borges - Library of Congress
He wrote close to fifty collections of essays, short stories, and poems El idioma de los argentinos (The Language of the Argentines) (1928), Ficciones (Fictions) (1944), and Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) are respectively noteworthy representations of his feats in each genre
- Borges: The Complete Works
Borges: The Complete Works comprises every word that Jorge Luis Borges has ever written, both in the original Spanish and in English translation
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