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Jorge Luis Borges

1899 - 1986

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Jorge Francisco Luis Isidoro Borges ( BOR-hess; 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. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Luis Borges is the 68th most popular writer (up from 75th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Argentina (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Writer.

Jorge Luis Borges is most famous for being a short story writer. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1899 and wrote many short stories, poems, and essays. His most famous work is "The Garden of Forking Paths."

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Among writers, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 68 out of 7,302. Before him are Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, and Rabindranath Tagore. After him are Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Romain Rolland, and Charles Perrault.

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Among people born in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 3. Before him are Huang Xianfan, and Ernest Hemingway. After him are Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick IX of Denmark, Al Capone, Lavrentiy Beria, Vladimir Nabokov, Yasunari Kawabata, Friedrich Hayek, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, and Humphrey Bogart. Among people deceased in 1986, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 2. Before him is Simone de Beauvoir. After him are Wallis Simpson, Vyacheslav Molotov, Olof Palme, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, James Rainwater, and Robert S. Mulliken.

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Among people born in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 3 out of 1,154. Before him are Pope Francis (1936), and Che Guevara (1928). After him are Diego Maradona (1960), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), and José de San Martín (1778).

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Among writers born in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 1. After him are Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Manuel Puig (1932), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Joseph Kessel (1898), María Kodama (1937), Esther Vilar (1935), and María Elena Walsh (1930).

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