[en] Abstract from English Wikipedia: "Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/; Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes] ; 24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre. Critic Ángel Flores, the first to use the term magical realism to define a genre that reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the 19th century, considers the beginning of the movement to be the release of Borges' A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia). However, some critics would consider Borges to be a predecessor and not actually a magical realist. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil. In 1914 Borges' family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55; as he never learned braille, he became unable to read. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor prize (Prix International), which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by his works being available in English, by the Latin American Boom and by the success of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."

[es] Resumen biográfico extraído de Wikipedia en español: "Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (Buenos Aires, 24 de agosto de 1899 - Ginebra, 14 de junio de 1986) fue un escritor argentino, uno de los autores más destacados de la literatura del siglo XX. Publicó ensayos breves, cuentos y poemas. Su obra, fundamental en la literatura y el pensamiento universales, además de objeto de minuciosos análisis y múltiples interpretaciones, trasciende cualquier clasificación y excluye todo tipo de dogmatismo. Es considerado uno de los eruditos más reconocidos del siglo XX. Ontologías fantásticas, genealogías sincrónicas, gramáticas utópicas, geografías novelescas, múltiples historias universales, bestiarios lógicos, éticas narrativas, matemáticas imaginarias, dramas teológicos, invenciones geométricas y recuerdos inventados son parte del inmenso paisaje que las obras de Borges ofrecen tanto a los estudiosos como al lector casual. Y sobre todas las cosas, la filosofía, concebida como perplejidad, el pensamiento como conjetura, y la poesía, la forma suprema de la racionalidad. Siendo un literato puro pero, paradójicamente, preferido por los semióticos, matemáticos, filólogos, filósofos y mitólogos, Borges ofrece -a través de la perfección de su lenguaje, de sus conocimientos, del universalismo de sus ideas, de la originalidad de sus ficciones y de la belleza de su poesía- una obra que hace honor a la lengua española y la mente universal. Galardonado con numerosos premios, Borges fue un personaje polémico, con posturas políticas que se estima fueron óbice para ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura al que fue candidato durante casi treinta años. Que un individuo quiera despertar en otro individuo recuerdos que no pertenecieron más que a un tercero es una paradoja evidente. Ejecutar con despreocupación esa paradoja, es la inocente voluntad de toda biografía. J. L. Borges, Evaristo Carriego"