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  1. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was born into an educated middle-class family on 24 August 1899. [ 10 ] They were in comfortable circumstances but not wealthy enough to live in downtown Buenos Aires, so the family resided in Palermo, then a poorer neighborhood.

  2. Sep 26, 2024 · 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.

  3. Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry.

  4. Nov 27, 2023 · Who was Jorge Luis Borges? Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine writer regarded as one of the foremost exponents of Argentine, Spanish-language and world literature of the twentieth century.

  5. Sep 2, 2014 · Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever. Everyone should read him, writes Jane Ciabattari.

  6. May 8, 2018 · During his time in Europe, Borges was exposed to several groundbreaking writers and literary movements. While in Madrid, Borges participated in the founding of "Ultraism," a literary movement that sought a new sort of poetry, free from form and maudlin imagery.

  7. About Jorge Luis Borges: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key...

  8. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was born into an educated middle-class family on 24 August 1899. They were in comfortable circumstances but not wealthy enough to live in downtown Buenos Aires, so the family resided in Palermo, then a poorer neighborhood.

  9. Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges Includes manuscripts and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings and newspaper clippings, topical encyclopedia and bibliographies. Full-text literary magazine with images.

  10. Sir Jorge Luis Borges, Everything and a pound of your dear flesh: A Poet among the few who become immortals by the grace of the Verb, Borges came to the world in Buenos Aires, the 24 August 1899. From his father and his Anglican grandmother, Francis Haslam, Georgie (thus Borges was called by relatives) inherited Shakespeare’s language. He ...