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A Short Biography of Jorge Luis Borges

Author Name:

Jorge Luis Borges

Born As:

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo

Other Names:

Born:

24 Aug 1899

Died:

14 Jun 1986




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Novelist, Poet and Short Story Writer                          
                          
Mother  Leonor Acevedo Suárez
Father  Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam                          
At age nine, Jorge Luis Borges translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde into Spanish.

Bilingual, reading Shakespeare in English at the age of twelve.