Jorge Luis Borges AKA Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo Born: 24-Aug-1899 Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Died: 14-Jun-1986 Location of death: Geneva, Switzerland Cause of death: Cancer - Liver Remains: Buried, Cimetière des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic Sexual orientation: Asexual Occupation: Author, Scholar Nationality: Argentina Executive summary: The Garden of Forking Paths Collaborated with Adolfo Bioy Casares as H. Bustos Domecq. Father: (d. 1938) Wife: Elsa Astete de Millán (m. 1967, div. 1970) Wife: María Kodama (m. Apr-1986)
Professor: Literature, University of Buenos Aires (1956-1970)
American Academy of Arts and Letters French Legion of Honor 1983 World Fantasy Award 1979 Lifetime Achievement Cervantes Prize 1979 Balzan Prize 1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award Special Award (1976) Risk Factors: Blindness
Is the subject of books:
Borges y la nueva generación, 1954, BY: Adolfo Prieto
Author of books:
Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923, poetry) Luna de enfrente (1925, poetry) Inquisiciones (1925, essays) El tamaño de mi esperanza (1926, essays) El idioma de los argentinos (1928, essays) Cuaderno San Martin (1929, poetry) Evaristo Carriego (1930, hagiography) Discusión (1932, essays, film criticism) Historia universal de la infamia (1935, short stories) Historia de la eternidad (1936, essays) El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (1941, short stories) Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq, trans. Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi) Ficciones (1944, short stories) Dos fantasías memorables (1946, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq) Un modelo para la muerte (1946, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq) El Aleph (1949, short stories) Otras inquisiciones (1952, essays) El hacedor (1960, poetry and prose) Libro del cielo y del infierno (1960, novel, as H. Bustos Domecq) Antología personal (1961, anthology) Labyrinths (1962, anthology, in English) Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq, trans. Chronicles of Bustos Domecq) Elogio de la sombra (1969, poetry and prose) El otro, el mismo (1969, poetry) El informe de Brodie (1970, short stories) El oro de los tigres (1972, poetry and prose) La rosa profunda (1975, poetry) El libro de arena (1975, short stories) Prólogos (1975, prologues) La moneda de hierro (1976, poetry and prose) Historia de la noche (1977, poetry) Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977, short stories, as H. Bustos Domecq) Nueve ensayos dantescos (1981, essays) Atlas (1984, prose, with photographs by María Kodama) Los conjurados (1985, poetry and prose)
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