In 1960, prior to his astonishing swift ascendance to literary fame, Jorge Luis Borges must have seemed an unlikely candidate for the unofficial title of world’s most influential fiction writer.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and ...

When Jorge Luis Borges died in 1986, he was one of the world's most famous writers. Outside Spanish-speaking countries, many would have been pushed to say why; but mere mention of his name - and he ...

Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever. Everyone should read him, writes Jane Ciabattari. Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is ...

What Jorge Luis Borges had to say on his personal cult of books An excerpt from a series of extraordinary dialogues between Borges and and the Argentinian poet and essayist Osvaldo Ferrari.

William Egginton’s The Rigor of Angels unveils a shared common ground to bind an unlikely trio, despite the centuries, continents and disciplines holding them apart: theoretical physicist Werner ...

In early 1925, in a literary magazine in Buenos Aires called Proa ("Prow"), which he had helped to found, Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay called "El Ulises de Joyce." He would then have been just ...