Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · died at about 87^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Jorge Luis Borges

• Jorge Luis Borges was "promoted" from his library job to inspector of poultry and rabbits at a municipal market under Perón's government. He resigned the next day.^[1]
• At age ten, Borges translated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish. It was published, but his friends thought his father was the real translator.^[1][3][4]
• Borges was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature over thirty times but never won, joking that not granting it to him had become a Scandinavian tradition.^[1]
• Borges became director of Argentina's National Library in 1955 and was completely blind by the late 1950s. He never learned to read Braille.^[1]
• Borges's longest work of fiction is "The Congress", a story just fourteen pages long.^[1]
• A severe head injury on Christmas Eve 1938 nearly killed Borges through sepsis, and while recovering he began the new style of writing that made him famous.^[1]
• Jorge Luis Borges was alive at the same time as Cristiano Ronaldo — their lives overlapped for 1 year (1985–1986).^[1][2][5][6]
• Jorge Luis Borges and Max Weber died on the same day of the year, June 14.^[1][2][7][8]

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges 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, 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 magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.^[1]

Contemporaries

Georgia O'Keeffe

87 yr overlap

Hirohito

85 yr overlap

Marlene Dietrich

85 yr overlap

Bob Hope

83 yr overlap

Salvador Dalí

82 yr overlap

Alfred Hitchcock

81 yr overlap

Golda Meir

79 yr overlap

Charlie Chaplin

78 yr overlap

Simone de Beauvoir

78 yr overlap

Agatha Christie

77 yr overlap

Mao Zedong

77 yr overlap

Haile Selassie

76 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Jorge Luis Borges

When was Jorge Luis Borges born?

Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899, and died on June 14, 1986.

How old was Jorge Luis Borges at death?

Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899, and died on June 14, 1986, at age 86.

What was Jorge Luis Borges known for?

Jorge Luis Borges was known for: Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges 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, 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 magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.

Who was alive at the same time as Jorge Luis Borges?

Jorge Luis Borges's closest contemporary was Georgia O'Keeffe. Their lives overlapped for 87 years.