Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ; Spanish: listen; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986 was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet together with translator, in addition to a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known books, Ficciones Fictions and El Aleph The Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's working have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and influenced the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His slow poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his breed to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The line travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his good to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became totally blind by the age of 55. Scholars make suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create advanced literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his form was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the number one Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by his working being available in English, by the Latin American Boom and by the success of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He committed hiswork, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."