Born on the 24th of august in 1899 in Buenos Aires Jorge Luis Borges became one of the most unique literary figures of the twentieth century.
He was the master of the short story. Borges wrote tales of Argentina’s criminal underground and created fictional worlds that captured his wonder with the concept of infinitude. In his poems he writes about the unique culture and traditions of Buenos Aires, where he lived until his death in 1986.
Many see it as an injustice that one of Latin America’s greatest writers died without having received a Nobel Prize for literature. “It makes me a little ashamed to receive the Nobel Prize, given that Borges didn’t receive it,” Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa said a7fter winning the coveted award in 2010.
These are a few of his famous quotes:
- “Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
- “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
- “When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
