"Another, the Same" Author: [Argentina] Borges Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

Argentine poet, novelist, critic, translator, master of Spanish literature.

Born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, he traveled to Europe with his family as a teenager.

In 1923, he published his first poetry collection, Buenos Aires Passion, in 1925, he published his first essay collection, Explorations, and in 1935, he published his first short story collection, The Villain's Biography, which gradually established his position in the Argentine literary world. His representative poetry collections, Notes of San Martín and The Golden Color of the Tiger, his novel collections, The Garden of Forking Paths and Aleph, and his essay collections, History of Eternity and Other Explorations, have won him international reputation. He has translated works by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Woolf, and Faulkner.

He has served as director of the National Library of Argentina and professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He has won many literary awards, including the Argentine National Literature Award, the Formentor International Publishing Award, the Jerusalem Prize, the Balzan Prize, the Chino del Duca Prize, and the Cervantes Prize.

He died of illness in Geneva, Switzerland on June 14, 1986.