Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a poet, essayist, and short-story writer, he became one of the first Latin American writers to achieve international fame.
He is one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century literature. His influence on the art of narrative and on the very way people think about writing has been incalculable. All postwar fiction, from Gabriel García Márquez to Carlos Fuentes, John Updike to John Barth, Italo Calvino to Umberto Eco, bears Borges's imprint - in spite of the fact that Borges did not write a single novel.
He is one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century literature. His influence on the art of narrative and on the very way people think about writing has been incalculable. All postwar fiction, from Gabriel García Márquez to Carlos Fuentes, John Updike to John Barth, Italo Calvino to Umberto Eco, bears Borges's imprint - in spite of the fact that Borges did not write a single novel.
Novels
Collections
Inquiries (1925)
A Universal History of Infamy (1935)
A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi (1942)
Ficciones (1956)
A Personal Anthology (1961)
Dreamtigers (1964)
Labyrinths (1964)
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
Extraordinary Tales (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
The Book of Imaginary Beings (1969)
Doctor Brodie's Report (1970)
Selected Poems 1923-1967 (poems) (1972)
The Book of Sand (1975)
The Aleph (1978)
Seven Nights (1985)
Collected Fictions (1998)
Everything and Nothing (1999)
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (2007)
The Sonnets (poems) (2010)
A Universal History of Infamy (1935)
A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi (1942)
Ficciones (1956)
A Personal Anthology (1961)
Dreamtigers (1964)
Labyrinths (1964)
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
Extraordinary Tales (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
The Book of Imaginary Beings (1969)
Doctor Brodie's Report (1970)
Selected Poems 1923-1967 (poems) (1972)
The Book of Sand (1975)
The Aleph (1978)
Seven Nights (1985)
Collected Fictions (1998)
Everything and Nothing (1999)
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (2007)
The Sonnets (poems) (2010)
Chapbooks
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Other Inquisitions 1937-52 (1964)
Borges on Writing (1973)
Borges (1981)
Conversations (1984)
Atlas (1985)
Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (2010) (with Fernando Sorrentino)
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise (2010)
Borges at Eighty (2013)
Borges on Writing (1973)
Borges (1981)
Conversations (1984)
Atlas (1985)
Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (2010) (with Fernando Sorrentino)
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise (2010)
Borges at Eighty (2013)
Anthologies containing stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Stories Strange and Sinister (1965)
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967)
aka Step Outside Your Mind
Into the Unknown (1973)
Open at Your Own Risk (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 2 (1976)
The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
Black Water (1983)
The Slaying of the Dragon (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Strange Dreams (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967)
aka Step Outside Your Mind
Into the Unknown (1973)
Open at Your Own Risk (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 2 (1976)
The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
Black Water (1983)
The Slaying of the Dragon (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Strange Dreams (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Short stories
Avelino Arredondo | |||
The Book of Sand [short story] | |||
The Bribe | |||
The Circular Ruins | |||
The Congress [short story] | |||
The Disk | |||
The Mirror and the Mask | |||
The Night of the Gifts | |||
Odin (with Delia Ingenieros) | |||
The Other | |||
The Sect of the Thirty | |||
There Are More Things | |||
Ulrike | |||
Undr | |||
The Zahir | |||
The Chamber of Statues (1933) | |||
The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell (1933) | |||
The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke (1933) | |||
The Mirror of Ink (1933) | |||
Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities (1933) | |||
Streetcorner Man (1933) | |||
Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter (1933) | |||
The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate (1933) | |||
The Wizard Postponed (1933) | |||
The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv (1934) | |||
Tale of the Two Dreamers (1934) | |||
A Theologian in Death (1934) | |||
The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan (1935) | |||
The Library of Babel (1941) | |||
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1941) | |||
The Aleph [short story] (1945) | |||
A Double for Mohammed (1946) | |||
The Generous Enemy (1946) | |||
Of Exactitude in Science (1946) | |||
Funes the Memorious (1962) | |||
The Immortal (1962) | |||
The Lottery in Babylon (1962) | |||
The Intruder (1966) | |||
Death and the Compass (1968) | |||
The Meeting (1969) | |||
Rosendo's Tale (1969) | |||
Doctor Brodie's Report [short story] (1970) | |||
The Duel (1970) | |||
The Elder Lady (1970) | |||
The End of the Duel (1970) | |||
The Gospel According to Mark (1970) | |||
Guayaquil (1970) | |||
Juan Murana (1970) | |||
The Unworthy Friend (1970) | |||
Utopia of a Tired Man (1975) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
August 25, 1983 (1982) | |||
The Rose of Paracelsus (1998) |
Awards
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Books about Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges recommends

The Marquis of Bolibar (1926)
Leo Perutz
"A perfect example of the novel of the fantastic in its purest form."

Black Water (1983)
Alberto Manguel
"The memory of our greatest stories is a form of imagination, and this Anthology of Fantastic Literature is a treausure-house of memory."
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