Jorge Luis Borges – 20th-century Argentine writer, author of The Aleph and The Library of Babel, master of metaphysical fiction. His stories of labyrinths, mirrors, and infinity shaped postmodernism. Borges became a symbol of literature erasing the line between reality and imagination.
📚 Borges worked as a librarian most of his life, calling paradise “a kind of library.” 👓 He went blind in middle age but continued dictating his works. 🔮 Infinity, time, and paradox were his signature themes. 🌎 Blended European traditions with Latin American roots. 🖋 Loved inventing fictional books and authors that seemed real. 🎓 Taught at Harvard, influencing English-language literature. ✨ His style has been described as “concise infinity.” ⚔️ Fascinated by Norse sagas, he wrote essays on Vikings. 🏆 Won the Cervantes Prize but was denied the Nobel. 😂 Fun fact: he joked that blindness was “the best gift of the gods to a writer who values imagination above colours.”