Jorge Luis Borges

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-08-24 (87 years old)

Deathday

1986-06-14

Place of Birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge Luis Borges

Biography

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 international literature. His best-known books, 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. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American ...

Acting

1998

Borges: A Life in Poetry

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

2000

The Books and the Night

as Himself (archive footage)

2000

Harto the Borges

as Self (archive footage)

1999

Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

as Himself (archive footage)

1978

2015

Memorias de Borges

as Self (Archive Footage)

Production

1975

Los orilleros

as Screenplay

1952

La Espera

as Story

1992

Death and the Compass

as Original Story

1970

The Spider's Stratagem

as Original Story

2014

1983

The Garden

as Story

1969

Emma Zunz

as Novel

1962

2003

1954

Days of Hate

as Short Story

1954

Days of Hate

as Screenplay

1969

Invasion

as Story

1969

Invasion

as Screenplay

1975

The Dead Man

as Short Story

1976

Ghazal

as Original Story

2019

Asterión

as Original Concept

1975

The Others

as Screenplay

1971

1980

The Intruder

as Novel

1992

Death and the Compass

as Short Story

1976

Spiderweb

as Short Story

2015

Kid

as Original Story

1978

Splits

as Original Story

2005

El Aleph

as Original Story

1999

The Encounter

as Writer

1987

The Guest

as Short Story

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