Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires. He was brought up bilingual in Spanish and English. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, then traveled around Spain. On return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began his career as a writer with the publication of poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. He worked as a librarian, suffering political persecution at the hands of the Peron administration. He then became a public lecturer.
Due to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties.[1] In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986.
J. M. Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."[2]
Short stories
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths) (1941; published in Ficciones, 1944)
Historia universal de la infamia (1935, short stories)
Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942)
Ficciones (1944)
Dos fantasías memorables (1946, as H. Bustos Domecq)
Un modelo para la muerte (1946)
El Aleph (1949)
La muerte y la brújula (1951)
Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, as H. Bustos Domecq)
El informe de Brodie (1970)
El libro de arena (1975)
Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977), con Bioy Casares
La memoria de Shakespeare (1983)
El Encuentro(1997)