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Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

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Borges was born into an upper class family, and received his education in Buenos Aires, Cambridge, and Geneva. He began writing as a student, and when in 1918 he settled in Spain, it was as a member of an experimental literary group. He returned to Argentina in 1921, and had his first poems published in 1923... See full bio »

Born:

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died:

(age 86) in Geneva, Switzerland
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2011 El Aleph (video)
 
2011 The Language of the Fox (short) (original story)
 
2010 The Intruder (short) (inspiration)
 
2010 Five No Budget Films (story for "The Sandbook")
 
2008 Movajehe (story)
 
2006 The Secret Miracle (TV short) (short story - uncredited)
 
2003 Singing Behind Screens (short story "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" - uncredited)
 
2003 Variaciones 1/113 (poem)
 
2002 Tomo VII (short) (story)
 
2002 La Rencontre (short)
 
1999 El Aleph (short) (story)
 
1999 El encuentro (story)
 
1998 El milagro secreto (short) (story)
 
1994 El fin del comienzo (short) (story)
 
1993 The Gospel According to Mark (TV movie) (story)
 
1993 La intrusa (TV movie) (story)
 
1993 Emma Zunz (TV movie) (short story / as J.L. Borges)
 
1993 La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez (TV movie) (story)
 
1993 Die Inschrift des Gottes (short) (short story)
 
1992 Death and the Compass (story)
 
1992 El sur (TV movie) (story)
 
1991 The Leaves of a Cypress (short)
 
1988 Alles istories (short) (short story)
 
1987 Gost (story "The Gospel According to Mark")
 
1986 La rose de Paracelse (short) (short story)
 
1985 La intrusa (short) (story)
 
1984 Cosmoagonia (documentary short)
 
1984 Curso y recurso (short) (story)
 
1983 Sad (story)
 
1979 A Intrusa (story)
 
1978 I problemi di Don Isidro Parodi (TV series) (novel)
 
1977 Spiderweb (short) (story "Death and the Compass" - uncredited)
 
1975 Los orilleros
 
1975 Cacique Bandeira (story)
 
1975 Ghazal (story)
 
1974 The Others
 
1971 La maschera del minotauro (short) (short story)
 
1970 The Spider's Stratagem (story "Tema del traidor y del héroe" / as J.L. Borges)
 
1969 Invasion (screenplay / story)
 
1968 Los taitas (short) (novel)
 
1967 Los contrabandistas (short) (novel)
 
1966 Emma Zunz (short) (story)
 
1962 Man on Pink Corner (story)
 
1954 Days of Hate (screenplay / story "Emma Zunz")
 
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1969 Invasion ("Milonga de Manuel Flores")
 
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2011 El Aleph (video) (grateful acknowledgment)
 
2010 The Reason for My Life (in memory of)
 
2008/I The Dreaming (short) (special thanks)
 
1990 Continental (acknowledgment)
 
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2003 Borges sobre Borges (TV documentary)
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1999 Soriano (documentary)
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1985 Galeria oberta (TV series)
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– Episode dated 7 June 1985 (1985) … Himself
 
1980 A fondo (TV series)
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– Episode dated 26 May 1980 (1980) … Himself
 
1979 Los ochenta años de Borges (TV movie)
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1979 Perfiles (TV series)
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– Episode dated 15 March 1979 (1979) … Himself
 
1978 Borges para millones (documentary)
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1978 Encuentros con las letras (TV series)
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– Episode dated 3 January 1978 (1978) … Himself
 
1975 Paseo con Borges (documentary)
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2009 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
 
2006 La imagen de tu vida (TV series)
 
2006 La mandrágora (TV series)
 
2005 The Tiger and the Snow
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2005 Algo habrán hecho (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Variaciones 1/113
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2000 Harto the Borges (documentary)
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1999 Images of the Absence (documentary)
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Other Works:

"Tango Americano", "Playboy" (USA), December 1986, pg. 86-87.

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Alternate Names:

J.L. Borges
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Personal Quote:

Philosophy springs from our perplexity. See more »

Trivia:

In response to what had become an annual question, Borges finally began joking about "the Swedish custom" of not awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature. See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo