Full Name: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges.
Known AS: Jorge Luis Borges.
Nickname: Didn't have a Nickname.

Father Name: Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam.
Mother Name: Leonor Acevedo Suárez.
Wife: Elsa Astete de Millán (m. 1967, div. 1970).
Wife: María Kodama (m. Apr-1986).

Date of Birth: 24 August 1899.
Birth Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Date of Death: 14 June 1986 (aged 86).
Death Place: Geneva, Switzerland.
Cause of Death: Liver Cancer.
Remains/Buried: Cimetière des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland.

Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Education: Collège Calvin (1918)
Occupation: Writer, Poet, Critic
Language: Spanish.
Professor: Literature, University of Buenos Aires (1956-1970).
Nationality: Argentina.

Notable works: A Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), El Aleph (1949), Labyrinths (1962), and The Book of Sand (1975).

Influenced By: Homer, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jonathan Swift, David Hume, Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Miguel de Cervantes.

Writer, Poet and Critic Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986) is considered one of the most prominent literary heroes of Argentina as well as modern world literature. His writings influenced many contemporary writers including Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Ricardo Piglia, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and many others.

Early Life & Childhood: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was born on 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father had a vast library which inspired his literary ambitions. At the age of nine, he rendered Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish. Borges was taught at home until his 11. At his 12, he read Shakespeare's works in English. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland. In 1918, Luis Borges received his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève. After World War I, his family lived in Lugano, Barcelona, Majorca, Seville and Madrid next three years. During this time, he read the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Gustav Meyrink which influenced him much. In 1921, his family returned to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Personal Life & Family: Jorge Luis Borges's father named was Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam and his mother named Leonor Acevedo Suárez. He came from an educated middle-class family. In 1967, Luis Borges married Elsa Astete de Millán but divorced her three years later. In April 1986, he married again to María Kodama.

Later Life & Death: After returning to Buenos Aires, Jorge Luis Borges was influenced by the writings of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1933, he began working as an editor for the newspaper Critica. In 1938, he lost his father. In 1944, his collection of short stories Ficciones published is regarded as his masterwork. In the later 1950s, Luis Borges became completely blind. In 1956, he became an instructor at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1957, he obtained the National Prize for Literature from the University of Cuyo. In 1962, he published his collections of English writing, Labyrinths and Ficciones. In 1970, he left his position at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1980, he received Balzan Prize. Jorge Luis Borges died on 14 June 1986. He was buried at Cimetière des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland.