Grete Stern（1904–1999），1951 年 · 公有领域
24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986
Jorge Luis Borges, full name Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges · 阿根廷
20th-century Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer, a classic author of the Spanish-speaking literary world.
Born on 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires, he went to Geneva, Switzerland, with his family in 1914 to study, and after returning home took part in the avant-garde literary movement; his representative short-story collections *Ficciones* (1944) and *The Aleph* (1949) are known for motifs of labyrinths, mirrors, infinity, dreams, and invented authors; from 1955 he served as director of the National Library of Argentina, and after becoming completely blind in later life continued to compose by dictation; he died in Geneva on 14 June 1986.
People & stories
Places in their life
Birthplace and place of growing up Buenos Aires (the Palermo district is the setting of many of his works); place of study and burial Plainpalais Cemetery, Geneva, Switzerland (also known as the Cemetery of Kings); place of activity the National Library of Argentina.
People
Cultural significance
His short stories reshaped the imaginative boundaries of 20th-century world literature, profoundly influencing magical realism and later fantasy and philosophical fiction; the streets, libraries, and cafés of Buenos Aires remain literary landmarks for a "Borgesian walk".