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Biography

Name: Jorge Luis Borges
Birth Date: August 24, 1899
Death Date: June 14, 1986
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place of Death: Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality: Argentine
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
806 words, approx. 3 pages
The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets. His short stories revealed him as one of the great stylists of the Spanish language. Jorge Luis Borges was born on...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
8,990 words, approx. 30 pages
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's best-known writer, was born on 24 August 1899 in a traditional old house in central Buenos Aires (not far from today's financial district) and grew up in the neighborhood of Palermo. His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges,...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
7,145 words, approx. 24 pages
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature. Continuing the tradition of fantastic literature established by Edgar Allan Poe in the nineteenth century, he transformed the genre into an...
 


Quotations
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Jorge Luis Borges ( 1899-08-24 – 1986-06-14 ) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Borges, Jorge Luis
917 words, approx. 3 pages
(born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature. Life Borges was reared in the...
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Borges, Jorge Luis
172 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Aug. 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Arg.—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switz.) Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer. Educated in Switzerland, Borges recognized early that he would have a literary career. From the 1920s on he was...
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Jorge Luis Borges Information
6,827 words, approx. 23 pages
Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his short stories and fictional essays. Borges was also a poet, critic, and translator. He was influenced by authors such as: Dante...


News and Journals
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National Review
Jorge Luis Borges, RIP. (obituary)
07/18/1986: 469 words, approx. 2 pages
Jorge Luis Borges, RIP WITH JORGE LUIS BORGES'S death it is incredible to look back and realize that he did not get the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was given to Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, and some Spanish and Italian poets who...
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Southerly
Spanish steps with Jorge Luis Borges.
03/22/2003: 1,465 words, approx. 5 pages
YOU'VE written about imaginary creatures such as the hippogriff and the basilisk. Now you've become a literary lion and are touring Europe. But you're blind and Europe is sounds, smells and the imprecise words of those you meet. Franco Maria Ricci, your Italian...
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AP News
Argentine poet wins literature prize
11/29/2007: 254 words, approx. 1 pages
Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who wrote about the pain of loss under his country's military juntas, has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award.The $133,000 award was announced Thursday by Spanish Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina.Gelman, 77, has published more than 20...
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AP News
Desai's 'Inheritance' wins fiction prize
3/9/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," a narrative of global discovery and displacement that has already won the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award."To be claimed by the place in which you live means so...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Martin S. Stabb
15,548 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following discussion of Borges's fiction, Stabb analyzes the elements that define the pieces as characteristically Borgesian.
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Critical Essay by Eynel Wardi
12,417 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Wardi applies psychoanalytic techniques to the interpretation of Borges's story “Emma Zunz.”
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Critical Essay by Julia A. Kushigian
12,120 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Kushigian explores the significance of “Orientalism” in Borges's fiction.
 


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