Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.
Essay: "A New Refutation of Time," 1946

Website:

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/index.html

Fictions and Artifices

• Collected Fictions
• A Universal History of Infamy
• Ficciones
• The Aleph
• El Hacedor (Dreamtigers)
• Personal Anthology
• Labyrinths
• Doctor Brodie’s Report
• The Book of Sand
• The Library of Babel (Illustrated)
• Everything and Nothing

Nonfiction

• Selected Non-Fictions
• Discusión
• Historia de la eternidad
• Other Inquisitions
• Seven Nights
• This Craft of Verse

Poetry

• Selected Poems
• Fervor de Buenos Aires
• Luna de enfrente
• Cuaderno San Martín
• El Hacedor
• El Otro, el mismo
• Para las seis cuerdas
• Elogio de la sombra
• El oro de los tigres
• La rosa profunda
• La moneda de hierro
• Historia de la noche
• La cifra
• Los conjurados
• Selected Poems, 1923-1967
• The Gold of the Tigers, Selected Later Poems: A Bilingual Edition