Jorge Luis Borges

Died in 1986

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899, according to escritores.org and the Argentine government. In 1914 his family moved to Geneva, where he took his baccalaureate; they then lived in Spain, where he took part in the Ultraist movement, and returned to Buenos Aires in 1921. Employed in 1938 at a municipal library in Almagro, he narrowly escaped death that same year from septicaemia. An avowed anti-Peronist, he directed the National Library from 1955 to 1974, afflicted by a blindness inherited from his father. He died in Geneva on 14 June 1986.

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