Writer · 1899 – 1986
Jorge Luis Borges
Little-Known Facts
- He went completely blind in later life, around the time he became director of Argentina's National Library.
- He called the coincidence of inheriting a library of books he could no longer read a divine irony.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Borges write novels?
No — remarkably, this giant of literature never wrote a novel, working instead in short stories, essays and poems, often only a few pages long.