Jorge Luis Borges
(born 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; died 1986, Geneva, Switzerland)

Argentine poet, essayist, and short story writer whose highly crafted works have become classics of 20th century world literature. Some of his best known fictions are The Garden of the Forking Paths, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote and Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Borges's vision is shaped by a lyrical attention to dream, memory and literary paradox.