Trivia

His style is so distinct that his name has become an adjective, "Borgesian". The term is generally applied to works that play with a reader's perceptions of conventional reality, usually by destabilizing notions of time and space, blurring the boundaries of fact, fiction, and philosophy, or blending artistic invention with mock criticism and academia. Other elements of the Borgesian style are more subtle, and include an economy of language, an eclectic range of interests, and a dry, ironic humor.

His favorite film director was Josef von Sternberg, whom he called a "cinematic novelist".

Argentine writer of short fiction and essays.

In response to what had become an annual question, Borges finally began joking about "the Swedish custom" of not awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 93-106. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Son of Jorge Guilhermo Borges (lawyer) and Leonor Acevedo.

Brother of Norah Borges (b.1901 d.1998).

The character of the old and blind librarian Jorge de Burgos in Le Nom de la rose (1986) was based on Borges, according to author Umberto Eco.

Son of Leonor Acevedo Suárez.