Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer. His best-known works, Fictions and 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 literature.