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Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. He was born in Buenos Aires on the 24th of August 1899 and died in Geneva on the 14th of June 1986. His best-known works are the short-story collections Ficciones and El Aleph, published in the 1940s.
Jorge Luis Borges is best known for Ficciones and El Aleph, collections that explore dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, and mirrors. Among his most cited stories are The Library of Babel, Funes the Memorious, The Aleph, and The Garden of Forking Paths. He never wrote a novel and called the short story an essential genre.
Jorge Luis Borges had become completely blind by the late 1950s, around the time he became director of the Argentine National Library in 1955. He never learned to read Braille, and his mother became his personal secretary. As his sight failed he focused increasingly on poetry, which he could memorize.
Jorge Luis Borges was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature despite being nominated over thirty times. Some observers attributed the omission to his conservative political views, including his acceptance of an honour from Chilean president Augusto Pinochet. Nobel committee member Artur Lundkvist wrote in 1979 that he considered Borges an improper laureate for ethical and humane reasons.
Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 story The Garden of Forking Paths anticipates the doctoral thesis of Hugh Everett III, later popularized as the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Commentators including Umberto Eco have also concluded that Borges anticipated the World Wide Web, with his stories turning the reader into an active participant.
Jorge Luis Borges opposed both. In 1946 the Perón government tried to reassign him to a post inspecting poultry and rabbits, and he resigned the next day. He attacked the Nazi police state in essays and in 1946 wrote the story Deutsches Requiem, framed as the testament of a Nazi war criminal named Otto Dietrich zur Linde.