WRITER

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 - 1986

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 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 international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorge Luis Borges has received more than 4,967,644 page views. His biography is available in 139 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 136 in 2019). Jorge Luis Borges is the 75th most popular writer (up from 77th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Writer.

Jorge Luis Borges is most famous for being a short story writer. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1899 and wrote many short stories, poems, and essays. His most famous work is "The Garden of Forking Paths."

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  • 139

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 75 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolai Gogol, Li Bai, Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, and Theodor Herzl. After him are Václav Havel, Arthur Rimbaud, Maxim Gorky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hesiod, and Henrik Ibsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 4. Before him are Huang Xianfan, Ernest Hemingway, and Alfred Hitchcock. After him are Al Capone, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Hayek, Frederick IX of Denmark, Lavrentiy Beria, Yasunari Kawabata, Humphrey Bogart, and László Bíró. Among people deceased in 1986, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 3. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, and Wallis Simpson. After him are Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Olof Palme, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, and Jean Genet.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 4 out of 1,154. Before him are Che Guevara (1928), Pope Francis (1936), and Diego Maradona (1960). After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Lionel Messi (1987), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), and Jorge Rafael Videla (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges ranks 1. After him are Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).

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