Author

Books by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine short story writer, essayist, and poet widely regarded as one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. Born in Buenos Aires and educated partly in Geneva and Spain, he returned to Argentina and worked for decades as a librarian and later as director of the National Public Library. He was repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature but never won it. His major collections — Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949) — transformed the short story form and established the intellectual and stylistic vocabulary of Latin American magical realism and postmodern fiction.