Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and linguist. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 but spent time living in Europe as a child and young adult, learning English, German and French. As an adult, he opposed the regime of Juan Peron in Argentina and had to step down from his role at the National Library due to Peron's return to power. Borges is considered one of Argentina's greatest writers for his works of short stories and helping to create the ultraism literary movement, though he was very serious about his work and bought back some of his early works to burn them.

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Jorge Luis Borges
1899 - 1986

2. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges:
Linguist
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1899, but moved
to Switzerland during World War I.
Because his grandmother was English, he learned to speak
this language before Spanish.
While in Europe, he learned to speak both German and
French.
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3. Personal Life
Borges was not lucky in love.
He married a friend from his youth in 1967, but that ended
quickly.
He married a woman in her 40’s a few months before he
died in 1986.
Most of his “adult life” was spent with his mother, who died
at the age of 99 in 1975.

4. Issues with Government
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Borges, who moved back to Buenos Aires in 1921, opposed
(quietly) the regime of dictator Juan Peron, who ruled off and
on throughout the 40’s, 50’s, and 70’s.
He kept a low profile, but the government knew where he
stood and had him and his family under constant
surveillance.
In 1973, after only ten years at his dream job, he stepped
down as director of the National Library because of Peron’s
return.

5. Literary Artist
Although he mostly wrote short stories, he is considered to be
both one of Argentina’s greatest writers and one of the “most
important writers of his generation.”
He helped create “ultraism,” a literary movement that
encouraged freedom from both form and sentimentality.
He was very serious about his works, at one point buying up
his old works in order to burn them.

6. Mediagraphy
Minster, Christopher. “Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986).” About.com: Latin American History. New York
Times Company, 2012. Web. 25 Jul. 2012.