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Jorge Luis Borges

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jun 14, 1986
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Buenos AiresArgentina
About
An Argentine fiction writer, poet, and translator, he is best known for such short story collections as Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). His other well-known works include A Universal History of Infamy (1935) and The Garden of Forking Paths (1941).
Family
He was married to Elsa Astete Millan for a brief period; later, he wed Maria Kodama, his longtime personal assistant. He died in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of eighty-six.

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